Sunny Skies

quotes

"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."
-Morris West

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
-James Oppenheim

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
-James Mattew Barrie

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."
-Frederick Keonig

"At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities."
-Jean Houston

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."
-Anne Frank

"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."
-Buddha

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude."
-Denis Waitley

"If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this."
-Kitaro Nishida

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
-Tom Bodett

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
-Helen Keller

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
-Agnes Repplier

"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

"We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own job"
-Henri Frederic Amiel

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln

"If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination."
-Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"May you always walk in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door."
-Irish blessing

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient"
-Aristotle

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
-Albert Einstein

"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
-Scottish proverb