Quotes About Life & Living Happily

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We all want to live a happy life! And we can take steps to improve and focus on the positive aspects of life, rather than dwell on the hardships. Therefore, although life will always be full of changes and struggles, when you have a positive mindset, you choose to nurture happiness. Nurture Happiness Today shares several quotes about life and living happily from classic literary works.


• “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
-Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest”

• “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
-Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

Oscar Wilde

• “Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
-Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

• “Insist on yourself; never imitate.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self Reliance”

• “But, dost thou love life? then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of”
-Benjamin Franklin, “Poor Richard’s Almanack”

• “Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.”
-Oscar Wilde, “A Woman of No Importance”

• “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
-William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”

• “With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
-Oscar Wilde, “De Profundis”

• “When new beautiful thoughts began to push out the old hideous ones, life began to come back to him, his blood ran healthily through his veins and strength poured into him like a flood.”
-Frances Hodgson Burnett, “The Secret Garden”


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