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Being Happy Quotes

I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Being Happy.

We all live with the objective of being happy;

our lives are all different and yet the same.

- Anne Frank

Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Happiness

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life

comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

- Robert A. Heinlein

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect.

It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

- Anonymous

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,

if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,

so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.

If, in short, I am an optimist,

my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

- Helen Keller

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Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind

to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist

for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.

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Thank You,

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The supreme happiness of life

is the conviction of being loved for yourself,

or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.

- Victor Hugo

We deem those happy, who from the experience of life

have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

- Carl Jung

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,

instead of what you don't have.

- Woody Allen

May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,

butterflies and the songs of birds,

the crash of storm-driven waves

and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.

Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is without meaning.

You bring the meaning to it.

The meaning of life is

whatever you ascribe it to be.

Being alive is the meaning.

- Joseph Campbell

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,

and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

Happiness never decreases by being shared.

- The Buddha

This is my wish for you:

Comfort on difficult days,

Smiles when sadness intrudes,

Rainbows to follow the clouds,

Laughter to kiss your lips,

Sunsets to warm your heart,

Hugs when spirits sag,

Beauty for your eyes to see,

Friendships to brighten your being,

Faith so that you can believe,

Confidence for when you doubt,

Courage to know yourself,

Patience to accept the truth,

Love to complete your life.

- Anonymous

When the vast cathedral of our being

becomes a sanctuary for all creation,

we become the face of God.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Face the facts of being what you are,

for that is what changes what you are.

- Soren Kierkegaard

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

- Joseph Campbell

Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing

that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The life of inner peace,

being harmonious and without stress,

is the easiest type of existence.

- Norman Vincent Peale

I Am One With Spirit and All Creation -

I give thanks for the unity of all creation

and for everything that has brought me to this moment.

I release my entire being to the gentle nurture of Spirit.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

- The Buddha

At the center of your being you have the answer;

you know who you are and you know what you want.

- Lao Tzu

Honor your being,

Release each and every struggle,

Gather strength from life's storms,

Relax into the arms of spirit.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.

May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.

May your essence be the nectar of the open blossom of your joy.

May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wherever there is a human being,

there is an opportunity for a kindness.

- Seneca

Until you'll willing to look foolish,

you'll never have the possibility of being great.

- Cher

Happiness never decreases by being shared.

- The Buddha

Be - don't try to become.

Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

- Osho

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."

Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.

Demanding that life meet our expectations

is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.

Life is a game with no rules.

Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.

Our only path to happiness lies in being open

to receiving whatever life throws at us -

with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that your true self,

a spiritual being,

is always perfect.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We're so engaged in doing things

to achieve purposes of outer value

that we forget the inner value,

the rapture that is associated

with being alive, is what it is all about.

- Joseph Campbell

Far from idleness being the root of all evil,

it is rather the only true good.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Today, I say yes to forgiving.

I commit to being for-giving love

and for-giving compassion in all areas of my life.

- Sheri Rosenthal

Let us swim together in the ocean of our being.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing

a human being to a purpose.

- Albert Schweitzer

If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

Well-being is making its way to you at all times.

If you will relax and find a way to allow it,

it will be your experience.

- Abraham (Esther Hicks)

The essence of being human is that one

does not seek perfection.

- George Orwell

Nurturing is not complex.

It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you

and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

Be a Human BEing Rather Than a Human DOing.

- Anonymous

How far you go in life depends on you being

tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged,

sympathetic with the striving

and tolerant of the weak and the strong.

Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

- George Washington Carver

The only good luck many great men ever had was

being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

- Channing Pollock

Today is my day to honor my being,

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.

May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.

May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is my day to honor my being,

release each and every struggle,

gather strength from life's storms,

relax into the arms of spirit.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis,

but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

- Mother Teresa

I entrust my entire being to the gentle nurture of Spirit.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Swim Happily in the Ocean of My BEing.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The more we care for the happiness of others,

the greater is our own sense of well-being.

- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

An idea that is not dangerous is

unworthy of being called an idea at all.

- Oscar Wilde

Your spirit soars throughout the vast Cathedral of Your Being.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.

Giving up is what makes it permanent.

- Marilyn vos Savant

What is admirable about those

who have been of great service to humanity

is not that they suffered in being of service,

but that they found their source of happiness

(joy if you prefer) in that service.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.

The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over

and let the beautiful stuff out.

- Ray Bradbury

May the world be kind to you,

and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.

May your spirit soar throughout the vast cathedral of your being.

May your mind whirl joyful cartwheels of creativity.

May your heart sing sweet lullabies of timelessness.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Confidence comes not from always being right

but from not fearing to be wrong.

- Peter T. Mcintyre

You can not find happiness by chasing after it.

Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,

and from being who you truly are.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mindfulness means being awake.

It means being aware of what you are doing.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

Who, being loved, is poor?

- Oscar Wilde

It's not in the DOing, it's in the BEing.

Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime,

your greatest contribution

to current and future generations

will be the happiness and joy

you generated and radiated to those around you.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I grant myself the Honor of being ME.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Being is the great explainer.

- Henry David Thoreau

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,

celebrate your differences -

make a great fruit salad.

Love isn't about being the same -

it's about being sweet with each other.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Eternity:

I am drawn to the wild edge of the ocean of my being

My curiosity unbound, I test the limits

of the limitless and the boundaries of the timeless.

I walk the path - the way - the way of ways -

to the end which is not an end.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Freedom lies in being bold.

- Robert Frost

Health is the greatest possession.

Contentment is the greatest treasure.

Confidence is the greatest friend.

Non-being is the greatest joy.

- Lao Tzu

The mind constantly chatters.

That chatter winds up being the force

that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do,

what we react to, and how we feel.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

It is wonderful to have Faith,

but don't confuse trust with being gullible.

Balance trust with conscious thought.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

- Anonymous

Inside most people there's a feeling of being separate,

separated from everything ... And they're not.

They're part of absolutely everyone, and everything.

- the movie Powder

The past is no more and the future is not yet.

The only right person is one who lives moment to moment,

whose arrow is directed to the moment,

who is always here and now; wherever he is,

his whole consciousness, his whole being,

is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.

- Osho

Being wakeful in each and every moment of your life is meditation.

The simplest definition of meditation is:

when seeing, just see; when hearing, just hear.

- Josh Baran

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May the world be kind to you,

and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie