Quotes Diary

I’m a big believer that if you find happiness, then success will follow. Happiness encourages good life decisions, bolsters wonderful relationships, and opens up doors to great opportunities.

If you’re searching for a little more positivity and success in your life.


10. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
9. “Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.” – Bernard Meltzer
8. "The greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition." – Martha Washington
7. "Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more." – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
6. "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."– Benjamin Disraeli
5. "Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them." – Steve Maraboli
4. "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
3. "Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness." – Drew Barrymore
2. "Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it." – Andy Rooney
1. "Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived." – Eleanor Roosevelt

[On sheets of poster board.]
Mark: With any luck by next year
Mark: I'll be going out with one of these girls.
[Pictures of beautiful supermodels.]
Mark: But for now, let me say
Mark: Without hope or agenda
Mark: Just because it's Christmas
Mark: (And at Christmas you tell the truth.)
Mark: To me, you are perfect
Mark: And my wasted heart will love you
Mark: Untill you look like this
[Picture of mummy.]
Mark: Merry Christmas

"Tell her that you love her. You've got nothing to lose, and you'll always regret it if you don't." - Daniel.

"I'm glad it was helpful. Don't go showing it around too much it needs a bit of tweaking. I've got to head out to lunch...early lunch. You can just show yourself out. [pauses] Its a self preservation thing...you see." - Mark

"I realized that Christmas is... is the time to be with the people you love."  - Billy Mack

" If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around." - Prime Minister

"I'll just be hanging around the mistletoe, hoping to be kissed." - Mia

"True love lasts a lifetime." - Karen

"But you know, the thing about romance is... people only get together right at the very end." - Sam

"Tell her that you love her. You've got nothin' to lose, and you'll always regret it if you don't!" - Daniel

"The truth is, I'm in love and there's nothing I can do about it." - Sam

"When I was young and successful, I was greedy and foolish, and now I'm left with no one. Wrinkled and alone." - Billy Mack

"True love lasts a lifetime." - Karen

"Life is full of interruptions and complications." - Karl

"Let's go get the shit kicked out of us by love." - Sam

"It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there." - Prime Minister

"Even the tiniest of hopes can show me the way to arrive at my goal" - Sri Chinmoy

"Hope never abandons you, you abandon it." -George Weinberg

"Once you choose hope, anything's possible."  -Christopher Reeve

"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope." –Barack Obama


"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."  -Lin Yutang

"Hope is a waking dream."
- Aristotle

"Only in the darkness can you see the stars." –Martin Luther King Jr.


"Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be."  –Don Quixote

When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
-Author Unknown


"There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope."  -Edgar Howe


"It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars." ― Richard Evans

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided it was probably impossible and the animal was old and the well was dry anyway, so it just wasn't worth it to try and retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down.

A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.

As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!

MORAL :
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

1. Free your heart from hatred - Forgive.

2. Free your mind from worries - Most never happens.

3. Live simply and appreciate what you have.

4. Give more.

5. Expect less from people but more from yourself.

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house-building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family.

He would miss the pay cheque, but he needed to retire. They could get by.  The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end a dedicated career.

When the carpenter finished his work the employer came to inspect the house.  He handed the front-door key to the carpenter, he said, "my gift to you".  The carpenter was shocked! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently.

So it is with us. We build our lives, a day at a time, often putting less than our best into the building. Then with a shock we realize we have to live in the house we have built. If we could do it over we’d do it much differently. But we cannot go back.

You are the carpenter. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board, or erect a wall. "Life is a do-it-yourself project, "someone has said: “Your attitudes and the choices you make today, build the "house" you live in tomorrow”.

Build wisely!