Happiness Is Like A Butterfly

Close the door to your past.
Open the door to your future.
And step forward into life.

Freedom is the right to write the wrong words.
( Patti Smith )

We often wonder why somebody didn’t do something about that.
And then we realise we are somebody.

Some people feel the rain.
Others just get wet.
( Bob Marley )

Some of us used to be smart.
Then we were attacked by laziness.

No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door.
The purpose of light is to create more light, to open people’s eyes, to reveal the marvels around.
( Paulo Coelho )

The main purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open mind.

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 )

Sometimes the things we need to question are the things we believe to be true.

Happy people are beautiful.
They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
( Drew Barrymore )

It’s sometimes good to be alone.
To get away from the fakeness and the bullshit and the nonsense of others.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
( Marcus Aurelius )

Ambition is good.
Except where the climb upward causes misery or suffering to others.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet.
I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
( Groucho Marx )

If you have health you have hope.
And if you have hope you have everything.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.
( Anne Frank )

Making the right choice is not difficult if you know what your values and your morals are.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
( Louisa May Alcott )

Knowing where you want to be in the future is easy.
But knowing how to get there may be difficult.

Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
( Alex Flinn )

When the character of a person is not clear to you, then look at their friends.

Happiness is like a butterfly.
The more you chase it, the more it will elude you.
But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
( Henry David Thoreau )

Believe only half of what you hear.
If you are wise you will know which half.

If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
( Paulo Coelho )

Most of us know exactly what to say.
But only the wise know whether or not to say it.

My happiness is not the means to any end, it is the end.
It is its own goal.
It is its own purpose.
( Ayn Rand )

Don’t regret what happened in your past.
It has made you stronger and smarter and wiser.

We all live with the objective of being happy.
Our lives are all different and yet the same.
( Anne Frank )

We can be as honest as we are ignorant.
If we are, when asked how the universe was formed and how life was created, we must say that we do not know.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
( Dalai Lama )

The most important thing is to enjoy your life.
To be happy.
It’s all that matters.
( Audrey Hepburn )

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
( J.R.R. Tolkien )

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
( Mark Twain )

This life is yours.
Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.
Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly.
Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature.
Take the power to control your own life, no one else can do it for you.
Take the power to make your life happy.
( Susan Polis Schutz )

Life is not always perfect, but it’s always what you make it.
So make it count.
Make it memorable.
And never let anyone steal your happiness.

I feel very adventurous.
There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.
( Elizabeth Taylor )

Life is short, live it.
Love is rare, grab it.
Anger is bad, dump it.
Fear is awful, face it.
Memories are sweet, cherish them.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
( Ray Bradbury )

Be thankful how rich you are.
Your family is priceless.
Your time is gold.
Your health is wealth.
To be alive is the greatest treasure of all.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
( Karen Blixen )

Never regret anything that has happened in your life.
It cannot be changed, nor undone, nor forgotten.
So take it as a lesson and move on.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
( Mark Twain )

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.
So love the people who treat you right.
Forgive the ones who don’t.
And believe that everything happens for a reason.

I am grateful for life and all that I love.
I am grateful for the Earth and the Sun up above.
I am grateful for my spirit and my inner being.
For the One that I express and the joy of this feeling.
( Owen Waters )

Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
( Dorothy Parker )

Sometimes we don’t need advice.
We just need someone to listen.

You have power over your mind, not outside events.
Realise this, and you will find strength.
( Marcus Aurelius )

We are all beautiful except in the eyes of an insecure.

There are those who do good deeds we know nothing of.
And there are those who do good deeds and want everyone to know.
( Eileen Hutchison, 1926-2008 )

Our thoughts are sometimes so loud we cannot hear the words we speak.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
( F Scott Fitzgerald )

Having somewhere to go is home.
Having someone to love is family.
Having both is a blessing.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
( Eleanor Roosevelt )

Honesty is the only way to go, otherwise nothing else works.

Tradition that does harm is practised by backward-thinking people, those who live in the past.
( Rose Winfold )

You will learn more from a single conversation with a wise man than from reading a thousand books.

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles.
( Tahereh Mafi )

Caged birds do not sing because they are happy.
They sing because they have a song.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
( Napoleon Hill )

I want to continue being crazy.
Living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.
( Paulo Coelho )

Indecision is often the unlikely path to inner contentment.
It means you often end up doing absolutely nothing at all, and that can be really relaxing.
( Jeff Bridges )