You are only as happy as you make up your mind to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

A smile is the beginning of peace.
-Mother Teresa

In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole and complete.

Louise Hay

Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer

It is in our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. Aristotle

Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that. Martin Luther King

Nothing is worth more than this day. Goethe

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. Eckhart Tolle

This moment is all you will ever have. Don't believe me? Try to capture the previous moment or the next moment and change it. - Rachel Devine

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul' - Langston Hughes

It isn't enough to talk about peace, one must believe it. And it isn't enough to believe in it, one must work for it. - Eleanor Roosevelt


I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. -Martin Luther

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life. -Grenville Kleiser


The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. -Albert Einstein

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. -Abraham Lincoln

You never find yourself until you face the truth. - Pearl Baily

I have sometimes been wildly despairingly, acutely miserable...but through it all I can still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie

Prayer for me is an upward leap of the heart.
-St. Terese of Lisieux

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land. -Annie Dillard

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days...What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has Magic, Power, and Genius in it. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe


You cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us...how we can take it, what we do with it...and that is what really counts in the end. -Joseph Fort Newton

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why. - Albert Einstein

So these are ours; faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is Love. - Corinthians 13:13

The righteous will never be moved: they will be remembered forever -Psalm 112:6

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. -Booker T. Washington

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. - 1 John 4:4 NKJV

A vessel full of living water is empty of all else.
- Danny Lee

Anyone who says that sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. -Unknown

When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars.
-Charles A. Beard

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop. - Kahlil Gibran

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
- Luke 12:34

God is nearer to us than our own spirit - Julian of Norwich

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-Henry David Thoreau

"I exist as I am, that is enough, if no other in the world be aware I sit content, and if each and all be aware I sit content." -Walt Whitman

Yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope."
-From the Sanskrit

If God created the shadows, it was to bring out the light. - John XXIII

At the end of our life we shall all be judged by charity.
- St. John of the Cross

You cannot always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside. -Dr Wayne Dyer

In times of quietness, our hearts should be like a tree lifting their branches to heaven to draw down strength which they will need to face the storms that will surely come in life. -Salesians of Don Bosco

Look within!... The secret is inside you. -Hui-neng

Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand. - Horace

The moment I realized God existed, I knew that I could not do otherwise than to live for Him Alone...Faith strips the mask from the world and renders meaningless such words as anxiety, danger and fear, so the believer goes through life calmly and peacefully, with profound joy---like a child, hand and hand with his mother.
- Charles De Foucauld

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God" Jesus Matthew 5:1

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May God bless you with the gift of his love, faith and hope.

Please pray for peace in our world. Pray especially for peace in our own hearts, because a peaceful world depends on individual peace. Pray for peace in our homes, communities, place of worship, and our families.

Finding Happiness Quotes

“Don't sink too deep into yourself. That is the secret to happiness.” Richelle E. Goodrich

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” Norman Vincent Peale

“Happiness is the meaning and purpose in life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” Aristotle

“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness.” Robert Morley

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people.” Albert Einstein

“Happiness is an inside job.” William Arthur Ward

“Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret of happiness in life.” Sheri Fink

“The secret to happiness is having a purpose in life that serves others.” Rachel Devine

“You are as happy as you make up your mind to be.” Abraham Lincoln

“The art of being happy is in extracting happiness from common things.” Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” Aristotle

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

“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

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

“The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.” Daniel C. Dennett

“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”
Friedrich Schiller

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”
Andy Rooney

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
Douglas Adams