Quotes about happiness
happiness wisdom future
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. Nicole Kidman
happiness giving people
Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.
happiness luxury would-be
I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
happiness great-happiness praiseworthy
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy. Philip Sidney
happiness ideas mind
Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy. Paulo Coelho
happiness wisdom divided
Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.
happiness thinking thanks
I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks. Marlene Dietrich
happiness thinking may
I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased. Nigella Lawson
happiness light graves
Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.
happiness watches complicated
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged. Nicolas Chamfort
happiness opportunity mind
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others in due course, I'll be given-or not given-the opportunity of benefiting from what I've learned. In any case, I'll have enjoyed the inestimable advantage of doing things I like doing and following my own inclinations.
happiness illusion pleasure
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
happiness
Don't stay watching happiness, make it. Nicki Minaj
happiness wine simple
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. Nikos Kazantzakis
happiness whatever-it-takes glorious
Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished. Neil Gaiman
happiness political attention
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. Nassau William Senior
happiness winning giving
The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have. Myrtle Reed
happiness summer christian
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. Morris West
happiness laughter heart
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. Mort Walker
happiness miserable week
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. Mignon McLaughlin
happiness real thinking
All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they are now; and they are possible to them chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over plowshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope: these are the things that make people happy. John Ruskin
happiness men world
God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.
happiness expression law
No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.
happiness sadness trying
Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go. Marianne Williamson
happiness giving-up attachment
Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.
happiness gratitude children
I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same. Gratitude is essential to happiness. Every time our children rush up to us and smile, we have something to be happy about; every time we get out of bed and can take a deep breath and go out for a walk, we have something to be happy about-that is the essence of a happy existence. Happiness is a muscle we must use, or it will wither away.
happiness prayer meditation
The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the lamp; it only matters that the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, every thought of forgiveness, every meditation, every act of love, we plug in. The more of us who plug in, to more the darkness of the world will be cast from our midst. Today, let's all increase love's wattage!
happiness gratitude simple
I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.
happiness lost complainers
Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost. Mason Cooley
happiness romance companionship
Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.
happiness smile laughter
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. Abraham Lincoln
happiness grief sadness
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. Alexandre Dumas
happiness pride thinking
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.