Inspirational Happiness Quotes: No more sadness

 With the help of inspiring happiness quotes, we can change and spread our inner thoughts. It can even change all of our lives

With the help of the written word, we can look away, away in time, through decades, centuries, and even millennia.

I'd like to look back to the past for some inspiring quotes from the sages who walked this earth to tell us about happiness and how to discover it.

“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

“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 Truly-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 to be 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 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 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 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