Even though we all desire to be happy, it can be a struggle to find happiness and hold on to it. So how then do we achieve happiness even tough and unhappy events seem to be around us?
Below are 15 quotes that teach the wisdom of living a happy life
1. “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
2. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
3. “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it’s generally the by-product of other activities.” – Aldous Huxley
4. “Whatever creates or increases happiness or some part of happiness, we ought to do; whatever destroys or hampers happiness or gives rise to its opposite, we ought not to do.” – Aristotle
5. “But I don’t think of the future or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness but only reached now in middle age.” – Virginia Woolf
6. “He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.” – Goethe
7. “If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.” – Madame de la Fayette
8. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up . I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the question and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon
9. “The power of hope upon human exertion and happiness is wonderful.” – Abraham Lincoln
10. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
11. “Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.” – William Butler Yeats
12. “Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
13. “There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path.” – Gautama Buddha
14. “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” – Alice Walker
15. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
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