Facebook share Tweet This Email this
Thank you for visiting these Nathaniel Hawthorne Sayings and Quotes. I hope you find value in these Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes and Sayings from my large collection of Inspirational Sayings.
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
Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Happiness
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Please sign-up on the form below to receive my free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email.
Thank you, Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
...
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.
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who can suffer while roses bloom
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My happiness depends on me.
- A Course in Miracles
Create happiness for others.
- Dale Carnegie
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wear an Inner Smile.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
Dance with a Light Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life.
- Anonymous
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Today is a Happy Day because I say it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light
is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
You don't need a reason to be happy,
just a choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness comes when I remember that others' opinions of me
are just their opinions - nothing more.
I find happiness in moving toward my goals
regardless of the applause or the jeers of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
It all comes to this:
the simplest way to be happy is to do good.
- Helen Keller
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us
that we are nothing but acorns
and that our greatest happiness will be
to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs.
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better:
that we can become oak trees.
- E. F. Schumacher
Celebrate! Celebration is an expression of Gratitude.
Gratitude is like the prayer, while
Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance.
Celebration is its own road to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is unconditional love,
there is no room for unhappiness.
Whenever I look in the mirror today,
I will say to myself: "That Is The Face Of God."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
We deem those happy, who from the experience of life
have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
- Carl Jung
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thank you for visiting: Nathaniel Hawthorne Sayings - Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes - Sayings by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Please sign-up on the form below to receive my free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email.
Thank you, Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.