“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton

“I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?” ― Ned Vizzini

“When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.” ― Fiona Apple

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel

“I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.” ― Andrew Solomon

“I’ll never forget how depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.” ― Henry Rollins

“I don’t want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel

“The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it. Not ever.” ― Nina LaCour

“Anger, resentment, and jealousy don’t change the heart of others; it only changes yours.” ― Shannon Alder

“Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It’s just too much for them.” ― Phoebe Stone

“If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking ” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” ― Amit Ray

“If I can’t feel, if I can’t move, if I can’t think, and I can’t care, then what conceivable point is there in living?” ― Kay Redfield Jamison

“I am in that temper that if I were underwater I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” ― John Keats

“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.” ― Jasmine Warga

“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.” ― Jo Nesbo

“There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep their secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.” ― Andrew Solomon

“If I were you I’d put that away. See you’re just wasted and thinking about the past again, darling, you’ll be okay.” ― Pierce the Veil

“If only sorrow could bring hope, I’d learn to live again” ― Britany Lopez

“Depression is an imagery of our heart’s sickness.” ― Rizky Adam Rifai

“I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn’t want to force anybody to want to.” ― Susanna Kaysen

“All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.” ― Tom Robbins

“I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.” ― Charlotte Eriksson

“Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself.” ― Roni Askey-Doran

“Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.” ― Abiola Abrams

“He looked at me, that first day like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth

“The Fall will always be yours and mine…” ― Jennifer Elisabeth

“You make me want things that I can’t have.” ― Kendare Blake

“Sorrow on another’s face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich

“I know by now, only too well, that you can never get away from yourself because you never go away.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Suicide and mental health problems have no boundaries.” ― Santosh Kalwar

“Negative thoughts are the causes of all depression and all stress.
Be positive; never infect your mind with negative thoughts.” ― Debasish Mridha

“It’s disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it.” ― Allie Brosh

“It’s a strange moment when you realize that you don’t want to be alive anymore.” ― Allie Brosh

“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.
Those seem to be the two choices. Everything else is just killing time.” ― John Green

“Behind the shadows there lies defeat; Fancy the light where her smile greets.” ― Jackie Connors

“The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.” ― Catherynne M. Valente

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words will always kill me.” ― Denice Envall

“When the Self is freed from the mind, there are no limits to what one can experience.” ― Vivian Amis

“I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.” ― Adam Ant

“I don’t know how to describe it, but the more I stare at him, the more I see his grief wrapped around him like shackles he can never take off.” ― Jasmine Warga

“The trick to loneliness is to spend a lot of time inside one’s head.” ― Pat R

“I think I’ll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that’s fine. I have to make my peace with that.” ― Laura Marling

“Love is what freed me from the cell of my selfishness.” ― Seth Adam Smith

“No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out.” ― Jeanette LeBlanc

“There is a difference between depression and sadness. I am happy to be sad.” ― Amanda Mosher

“It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs.” ― Chloe Thurlow

“Take control of your emotions before your emotions take control of you.” ― Scott Dye

“Gratitude is the antidote for misery. When you are counting your blessings you are too busy to be counting your problems.” ― Miya Yamanouchi

“A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.” – Marilyn Monroe

“You’re a beautiful girl, and you can do anything you want in life.” – Jeanine Pirro

“Give a girl the correct footwear and she can conquer the world.” – Bette Midler

“We girls, we’re tough, darling. Soft on the outside, but, deep down, we’re tough.” – Kristen Ashley

“A girl should be like a butterfly. Pretty to see, hard to catch.” – Samson huth

“Be someone who makes everyone feel like someone.” – Richard moore

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha

“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” -Unknown

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” -Albert Camus

“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’

If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.

If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.

If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.” -Chinese Proverb

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” -Ashley Montagu

“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” -Stacey Charter

“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

“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” -Lucille Ball

“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” – Winnie the Pooh

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

“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

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” -Thich Nhat Hanh

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” -Eskimo Proverb

“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” -Mary Stuart

“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.” -Seneca

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” -Robert A. Heinlein

“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” -Dennis Waitley

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The only joy in the world is to begin.” -Cesare Pavese

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go” -Oscar Wilde

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” -Marthe Troly-Curtin

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon” -Winnie the Pooh

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” -Herman Cain

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” -Confucius

“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.” -Anthony de Mello

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” -Dalai Lama

“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 that has been opened for us.” -Helen Keller

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” -Aristotle

“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.” -Seneca

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” -Marcel Pagnol

“If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.” -Joseph Addison

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

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.” -Epictetus

“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” -L.M. Montgomery

“Happiness is acceptance.” -Unknown

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” -James M. Barrie

“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.”   -Dalai Lama

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” -Dr. Robert Anthony

“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.” -Seneca

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” -Albert Einstein

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” -Bertrand Russell

“Happiness is a state of activity.” -Aristotle

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” –  Eleanor Roosevelt

“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.” ― Harry Potter

“I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed — or worse, expelled. Now if you don’t mind, I’m going to bed.” ―Harry Potter

“It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” ― Harry Potter

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” ―  Harry Potter

“You’re a little scary sometimes, you know that? Brilliant … but scary,” — Harry Potter

“There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don’t expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion-making. However, for those select few who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. Then again, maybe some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel confident enough to not pay attention!” — Harry Potter

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” ―  Harry Potter

“Fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself.” — Harry Potter

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” — Harry Potter

“Dobby is free.” — Harry Potter

“I solemnly swear I am up to no good.” ― Harry Potter

“Honestly, am I the only person who’s ever bothered to read Hogwarts: A History?” — Harry Potter

“But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” ― Harry Potter

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” —  Harry Potter

“I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. ‘Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.'” —Harry Potter

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” ―Harry Potter

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”  ―  Harry Potter

“Give her hell from us, Peeves.’ And Peeves, whom Harry had never seen take an order from a student before, swept his belled hat from his head and sprang to a salute as Fred and George wheeled about to tumultuous applause from the students below and sped out of the open front doors into the glorious sunset.” ― Harry Potter

“I think we’ve outgrown full-time education … Time to test our talents in the real world, d’you reckon?” — Harry Potter

“Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, ‘It unscrews the other way.’” ― Harry Potter

“I think I’ll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up — it always does in the end.” ― Harry Potter

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have.” ― Harry Potter

“You can laugh, but people used to believe there were no such things as the Blibbering Humdinger or the Crumple-Horned Snorkack!” ― Harry Potter

“I mean, it’s sort of exciting, isn’t it, breaking the rules?” — Harry Potter

“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” ―  Harry Potter

“‘The thing about growing up with Fred and George,’ said Ginny thoughtfully, ‘is that you sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve. ” — Harry Potter

“And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” —Harry Potter

“Every human life is worth the same and worth saving.” — Harry Potter

“‘He must have known I’d run out on you.’ ‘No,’ Harry corrected him. ‘He must’ve always known you’d always want to come back.’” — Harry Potter

“‘After all this time?’ ‘Always,’ said Snape.” ― Harry Potter

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.” ― Harry Potter

“And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred’s eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.” ― Harry Potter

“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.” — Harry Potter

“’No, Harry, you listen,’ said Hermione. ‘We’re coming with you. That was decided months ago — years, really.’” — Harry Potter

“‘Why are they all staring?’ demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students. ‘Don’t let it worry you,’ said Ron. ‘It’s me. I’m extremely famous.’” — Harry Potter

“All was well.” ― Harry Potter

“I’ve always wanted to use that spell.” ― Harry Potter

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” ―  Harry Potter

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” ―  Harry Potter

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” ― Harry Potter

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” ―  Harry Potter

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” ― Harry Potter

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if only one remembers to turn on the light” – Harry Potter

“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals” – Harry Potter

“Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.” – Harry Potter

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have.” –Harry Potter

“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human … the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.
” – Harry Potter

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.” – Harry Potter

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
” – Harry Potter

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”  ― William Shakespeare

“I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth. ” ― Ovid

“Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.” ― Lynsay Sands

“There is still no cure for the common birthday.” ― John Glenn

“I’m sorry I can’t do more. But happy birthday, Sadie. He leaned forward and kissed me on the lips.”― Rick Riordan

“When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.” ― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don’t stop and eat it along the way.” ― Joan Powers

“I don’t mind getting older; it’s a privilege denied to so many!” ― Chris Geiger

“The universe wanted you to celebrate and appreciate your life so every year she gave you a birthday.” ― Debasish Mridha

“We do have funerals for the living,” Jill said. “They’re called birthday parties.” ― Andrew Shaffer

“It’s nice to know someone thinks of you as a person, not an opportunity.” ― Chelsea Sedoti

“The day you start to admit you are responsible for your actions is the day your real life begins. Celebrate it.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

“I may not be physically present to stand by you while you cut your cake, but you’ll be in my thoughts today! Happy Birthday.” ― Aamir Sarfraz (aamir rajput khan)

“It was her birthday. She thought I am always unhappy on this day.” ― Iris Murdoch

“I have a birthday, same as you,” I wanted to tell the voices. “It just changes. Don’t you wish you could change your birthday?” ― Tara Westover

“Two days are the most important days of your life, first is the day when you were born and second is the day when you realized that you were never born.” ― Sw. Chidananda Tirtha

“People who go around advertising their birthday are douche bags.” ― Katja Millay

“Mom said it’s too violent for me. I would argue, but after being terrified by a SpongeBob balloon, I’m pretty sure she’s right.” ― Wendy Mass

“Birthdays were made for going wild over the people we think are amazing.”― Richelle E. Goodrich

“Entrepreneurs don’t have weekends or birthdays or holidays. Every day is my weekend, my birthday, my holiday. OR, every day is my workday. Mostly it’s a choice.” ― Richie Norton

“The only way that getting older can be a bad thing is if you are not fully living in the moment now.” ― Andrena Sawyer

Rather than see ageing as a reason to contract, we should view it as an opportunity to expand. We should make each year of our lives are more interesting than the one before.” ― Srinivas Rao

“You know how most people dread a birthday… Well, I feel the exact opposite. I feel that every day is an extraordinary gift. Just to be here, and especially to be here with you.” ― James Patterson

“Birthday should be considered as a unit of measurement to measure our present status toward success!” ― Mohith Agadi

“The day you were born
Heaven wept at its great loss,
Earth joyed at its gain.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich

“Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I wish you a vivacious day of love, laughter, and joy. Have an awesome birthday!” ― Debasish Mridha

“May your birthday be as pleasant and awesome as you always are.” ― Debasish Mridha

“The paradox of life; everyone desires a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The only kids that attended my birthday parties any more were Goth ones, wondering if the celebration of my spawning would kill again.” ― Jim Dyar, The Zeus Gambit

“The birthday party was me and her, a whore friend of hers and her pimp, and the cake.” ― Diane Arbus

“They assessed my age and assigned me a birthday.” ― Davan Yahya Khalil

“Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birth date.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“May the love in your heart overshadow any sorrows, and may you always know with a deep inner certainty, how loved you truly are.” ― Jodi Livon

“A good man measures his life not in the number of his years but in the quality of his friends.” ― Todd Stocker

“I celebrate myself, I paint and dance and sing myself, and what I assume you will assume, for every atom as of me as good belongs to dreamy You. I am a song. I am a poem. I am the soil and a gem. I am a Stargate and a voyage. I am the ocean and your soul.” ― Oksana Rus

“The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

“May today be the best birthday of your life, I give you my heart as the most precious gift I can give you and I promise I always will love you.” ― Auliq Ice

“Live every day like your birthday and drive your life with all varieties of appreciation. A life live with thanksgiving every day is never tired of being lived again and again!” ― Israelmore Ayivor

“The regret, these two words were etched into my forehead, I was sure.” ― Vann Chow

“Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes.” ― Anthony Liccione

“We normally know we’re getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded; unless you’re a cancer survivor! Then we love people reminding us!” ― Chris Geiger

“That’s how birthdays were in our house. All hateful charades of pretty clothes, expensive presents, and ugly words . . .” ― Debbie Howells

“For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shooting star that came her way, and now it had finally come true.” ― Sarah Weeks

“You were born and with you endless possibilities, very few ever to be realized.  It’s okay.  Life was never about what you could do, but what you would do. ” ― Richelle E. Goodrich

“If everybody was treated like they matter — every day; birthdays wouldn’t be so special”

“A broke man’s lover doesn’t feel ‘loved’ on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine’s Day.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The only day you truly wish to spend being a good person is your birthday.” ― Pratik Akkawar

“A happy birthday is measured not in the number of gifts one gets, but in the amount one is loved.” ― Todd Stocker

“Don’t celebrate how old you are, celebrate the years you survived.” ― Touaxia Vang

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”—Buddha

“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.—”Unknown

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”—Abert Camus

“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’

If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.

If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.

If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”—Chinese Proverb

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”— Ashley Montagu

“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”—Stacey Charter

“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

“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”—Lucille Ball

“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”—Winnie the Pooh

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

“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

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”—Thich Nhat Hanh

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”—Eskimo Proverb

“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”—Mary Stuart

“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”—Seneca

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”—Robert A. Heinlein

“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”—Dennis Waitley

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”—Mahatma Gandhi

“The only joy in the world is to begin.”—Cesare Pavese

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”—Oscar Wilde

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”—Marthe Troly-Curtin

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon”—Winnie the Pooh

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”—Herman Cain

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”—Confucius

“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”—Anthony de Mello

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”—Dalai Lama

“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 that has been opened for us.”—Helen Keller

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”—Aristotle

“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”—Seneca

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”—Marcel Pagnol

“If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.”—Joseph Addison

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

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us the greatest delight.”—Epictetus

“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”—L.M. Montgomery

“Happiness is acceptance.”—Unknown

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”—James M. Barrie

“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want to suffer. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.”—Dalai Lama

 

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy.”—Dr. Robert Anthony

“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”—Aesop

“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”—Seneca

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”—Albert Einstein

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”—Bertrand Russell

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”—Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“Happiness is a myth we seek,

If manifested surely irks;

Like river speeding to the plain,

On its arrival slows and murks.

For man is happy only in

His aspiration to the heights;

When he attains his goal, he cools

And longs for other distant flights.”—Kahlil Gibran

“Happiness is a state of activity.”—Aristotle

“This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because, on the whole, it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”—Douglas Adams

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”—Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”—Confucius

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”—Arthur Schopenhauer

“Good Morning! I hope your day is as positive as you are.” – Prince Charles

“Happy thoughts are the only cure for a sleepy morning… and I feel the happiest when I think about you!” – Unknown

“Nothing is impossible when you put your mind, heart, soul, and sweat into it. Have a great morning.” -Sylvester Iro

“Sending love and smiles your way for a happy happy day.” – Paul Martins

“Every day is a new day, new hope, and new opportunity. Good morning!” – Clifford Frank

“You are a blessing to my mornings.”  – Anonymous

“There are so many reasons to be thankful every day. I am thankful for you.” – Unknown

“Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning, and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”  – Elbert Hubbard

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”– Meister Eckhart

“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”– Arthur Schopenhauer

“I get up every morning, and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over, so I refuse to have a bad day.”– Paul Henderson

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”– Mark Twain

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”– Rumi

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”– Eleanor Roosevelt

“The morning was full of sunlight and hope.”– Kate Chopin

“Morning is an important time of day because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”– Lemony Snicket

“She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.”– Tyler Kent White

“The sunrise, of course, doesn’t care if we watch it or not. It will keep on being beautiful, even if no one bothers to look at it.”– Gene Amole

“When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”– Marcus Aurelius

“When you do something beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”– JohLennon

“Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.”– Alice MorsEarle

“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”– Henry David Thoreau

“I simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.”– Sidney Poitier

“Wake in the morning with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”– Kahlil Gibran

“What if every day is the perfect day to finally be exactly who you were always meant to be?”– Tyler Knott Gregson

“You give me strength; you give me just what I need. And I can feel the hope that’s rising in me. It’s a good morning.”– Mandisa

“I’m going to make everything around me beautiful – that will be my life.”– Elsie De Wolfe

“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.”– Aristotle

“Morning will come; it has no choice.”– Marty Rubin

“My future starts when I wake up every morning.”– Miles Davis

“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning, and you’ll start to see a big difference in your life.”– Yoko Ono

“The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained.”– Alexis Carrel

“The sun just touched the morning; the morning, happy thing, supposed that he had come to dwell, and life would be all spring.”– Emily Dickinson

“Be in love with your life, every detail of it.” – Jack Kerouac

“The morning was full of sunlight and hope.” – Kate Chopin

“Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.” – Henry David Thoreau

“First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.” – Ovid

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” – Epictetus

“If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.” – Elon Musk (Tesla)

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” – John Steinbeck

“If a man does not think too much, he rejoices at rising in the morning, and at eating and drinking. He finds satisfaction in them and does not want them to be otherwise.” – Hermann Hesse

“The morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness.” – William Shakespeare

“The miracle lies in the newness of a morning” – Lailah Gifty Akita

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” – Benjamin Franklin

“The early morning has gold in its mouth.” – Benjamin Franklin

“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.” – Benjamin Franklin

“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.” – Colin Powell