15 Cheerful Happy Quotes

“Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”
Charles Caleb Colton 

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“Action may not always bring hap

piness; but there is no happiness without action.”
Benjamin Disraeli

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
Albert Schweitzer

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”
Heraclitus

“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.”
Herman Hesse

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

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
Winston Churchill

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

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

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