The following is a list of quotes to cheer someone up. Some of them are funny while most are to help remind us to not take life too seriously. Happiness is something we all desire but far too many make it way more difficult to obtain than it really is. There will be good times and bad times in life and as long as we remember that regardless of what happens, things will pass, and that many of our bad times in life will turn out to be something good, we can better deal with those days we find it hard to put a smile on our face.
“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!”
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Until you walk a mile in another’s man mocassins, you can’t imagine the smell.” – Robert Byrne
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” – Denis Waitley
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
“The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.” – Bertrand Russell
“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” – Stephen Kaggwa
“Being happy doesn’t mean everything’s perfect, it means you’ve decided to see beyond the imperfections.” – Unknown
“Nothing lasts forever? Not even your troubles.” Arnold H Glasgow
“Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.” – Frances Rodman
“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything but make the best of everything they have.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Happiness is a direction, not a destination.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Life is never a straight line, it is full of twists and turns. The way to lead a happy life is not to avoid them but to embrace them; to find the happiness in them.” – Warren T. VanderVen
“Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain, but you can’t have the rainbow without a little rain.”
“They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.”
“Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.” – Dale Carnegie
“Being happy doesn’t mean everything in life is perfect, it simply means you have decided look beyond the imperfections.”
“To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.” – Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
“The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.” – Robert Bloch
“The key to happiness is not to have what you want, but to want what you have.”
“Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.”
“Life is far too important to be taken seriously.” – Oscar Wilde
“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” – Hugh Downs
“There can’t be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.” – Henry Kissinger
“There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.”
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to live life despite the imperfections. So be happy, because life is not perfect.”
“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” – Unknown
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” – Dr. Robert Anthony
“Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” – Aristotle
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” – Charlie Chaplin
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” – Tom Bodett
“There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.”
“Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they are really not. There are companions. The hero and the sidekick.” – Laurence Shames
If none of these worked in cheering that someone up, then perhaps sending them this video will help: