Playfully Speaking

What is Happiness? 20 Inspirational Quotes

                     compiled by Colleen Moulding

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just
beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may
alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

You can't change the past, and you can ruin a perfectly good
present, by worrying about the future.
Anonymous

Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat
and the freedom of your soul.
Flavia

A smile is curve that sets everything straight.
Anonymous

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people
Borge, Victor

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit
family in another city.
George Burns


Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill
of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something
to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as
well be happy.
Cynthia Nelms


Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucious


Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Scottish Proverb

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving,
make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.
Amanda Bradley

Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without
getting some on yourself.
Anonymous

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease
worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the
charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the
little,
soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or
heartfelt
compliment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge


The greatest happiness that you can have is knowing that you
do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan

The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings
A Child's Garden Of Verses

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within
yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
The 14th Dalai Lama

compiled by Colleen Moulding

Colleen Moulding is a
freelance writer from England where she has
had many features on parenting, childcare, travel,
the Internet and many more subjects published in national
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a variety of women’s and children’s fiction.
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