It’s been a while since I last did a quote roundup so I thought I’d remedy that. When I saw this rainbow maxi, I couldn’t help but think positive thoughts so I thought it’d be fitting to share my favorite happiness quotes to accompany shots from this set.
I’ve gotten a lot of good feedback regarding these types of posts so I may be sharing a few more in the future. If you have any specific requests, feel free to leave a comment below or shoot me an email at info@sensiblestylista.com. So without further ado, let’s get to it!
1. “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 it.” – Dale Carnegie
2. “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” – Carl Jung
3. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim
4. “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
5. “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
6. “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.” – Maxim Gorky
7. “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” – Chuck Palahniuk
8. “Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – Joseph Addison
9. “Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
10. “Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
11. “Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.” – Cynthia Nelms
12. “If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu
13. “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
14. “In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.” – Marla Gibbs
15. “True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller
16. “Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.” – Pat Conroy
17. “Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.” – Sri Chinmoy
18. “The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.” – Epictetus
19. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” – Dalai Lama
20. “Happiness is a form of courage.” – Holbrook Jackson
21. “Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck
22. “We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.” – David C. Hill
23. “You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes.” – Lauren Oliver
24. “If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.” – Edith Wharton
25. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
26. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
27. “Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.” – Divyanka Tripathi
28. “It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness.” – Sir Richard Branson
29. “The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.” – Eric Hoffer
30. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
31. “There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.” – Logan Pearsall Smith
32. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
33. “We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” – Thomas Merton
34. “Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” – Robert Anthony
35. “Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.” – William Feather
36. “Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” – Douglas Jerrold
37. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” – Roy T. Bennett
38. “To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.” – Robert Brault
39. “Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” – Earl Nightingale
40. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
41. “The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
42. “The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
43. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
44. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie
45. “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
46. “Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller
47. “We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.” – Walter Savage Landor
48. “On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.” – William R. Inge
49. “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” – Carl Jung
50. “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
51. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn
52. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Gandhi
53. “Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris
54. “The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” – Benjamin Franklin
55. “If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.” – Edith Wharton
56. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus
57. “True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
58. “Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.” – Ralph Marston
59. “Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.” – William D. Hoard
60. “The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” – Henry Ward Beecher
A huge thanks to the incredible Jan Galvan for collaborating with me on this shoot. I always have the best time working with him; his eye is second to none, and he’s just a really wonderful person to be around. We shot three outfits total so I still have one more set to share. If you missed my last post featuring his work, make sure to click here, and stay tune for more content coming your way. Until next time, loves!
Do you know, you are a living, breathing example of happiness, so positive all the time, it would be impossible to scroll past any of your posts without feeling happier for having seen or read it, definitely the kind of person I try and surround myself with, I think those closest to you are very lucky indeed, having you in their life, we are blessed you spend so much time reaching out and being such a great human being to us, and your beautiful smile is so infectious š Iām so blessed to see your great work on here, I hope you continue to Share your happiness because I for one love everything you stand for, your the best Kim š
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Aw =) that makes me so happy. Thank you for commenting!
I love the rainbow maxi dress! It’s really beautiful. I like the quote that happiness is a direction, not a place. It’s always a process.
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=D
Love your colors . My favorite quotes are 9,14,27,37,46 yours?
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Hm, that’s so tough! Let me get back to you, lol.
Lol , I will not hold my breath