Quotes about happiness
happiness children games
There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom! Gaston Bachelard
happiness may slave
The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough. Herbert Read
happiness believe pages
I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life. F. Scott Fitzgerald
happiness sad sky
And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again. F. Scott Fitzgerald
happiness past afternoon
Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself. F. Scott Fitzgerald
happiness real personality
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. Evelyn Underhill
happiness men self
You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation. Eugene Delacroix
happiness believe cutting
Everything that I think that I need to do, is all in order to propel me to some place, that when I get there I think I will be happier. So, everything that I am doing, no matter what it is, all of my lists of rights and wrongs, are all about me getting to a manifestation, that I believe I will then be happier... So why don't I just take the short cut and just be happy? Esther Hicks
happiness joy purpose
The purpose of life is Joy. Esther Hicks
happiness judging joy
You cannot judge the value of a life by its quantity. It is by the joy that you are feeling. The more joyful you are, the longer you live. Let yourself relax and breathe and be free and be joyous, and romp. Esther Hicks
happiness worry feel-good
Being happy is the cornerstone of all that you are! Nothing is more important than that you feel good! And you have absolute and utter control about that because you can choose the thought that makes you worry or the thought that makes you happy; the things that thrill you, or the things that worry you. You have the choice in every moment. Esther Hicks
happiness thinking vibrations
If you're not thinking about a negative thought, your vibration is going to raise to its natural positive place. Esther Hicks
happiness attention vortex
Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, benefits by the infusion of your Well-being. Esther Hicks
happiness struggle laughing
You cannot struggle to joy. Struggle and joy are not on the same channel. You joy your way to joy. You laugh your way to success. It is through your joy that good things come. Esther Hicks
happiness feelings desire
Always, when you know what you don't want, that's when the rocket of desire is born of what you do want. That is the fruit of your experience. Now pluck it and savor it and enjoy it. Visualize it, and find the feeling place of it. And live happily ever after, once you get the hang of this. Esther Hicks
happiness journey flow
Let your alignment (with Well-Being) be first and foremost, and let everything else be secondary. And not only will you have an eternally joyous journey, but everything you have ever imagined will flow effortlessly into your experience. There is nothing you cannot be or do or have—but your dominant intent is to be joyful. The doing and the having will come into alignment once you get that one down. Esther Hicks
happiness anticipation
Be happy in anticipation of what's coming. Esther Hicks
happiness differences keys
You're always on your way somewhere. The key is: find a way to be happy wherever you now are on your way to where you really want to be. (We're speaking of the state of being you want.) It does not matter where you are; where you are is shifting constantly - but you must turn your attention to where you want to go. And that's the difference between making the best of something and making the worst of something. Esther Hicks
happiness joy feelings
Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body. Esther Hicks
happiness believe happy-endings
If you knew everything was really was all right, and that it always has a happy ending, then you would not feel trepidacious about your future. Everything is really so very all right! If you could believe and trust that, then, immediately everything would automatically and instantly become all right. Esther Hicks
happiness determination feel-good
The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy. Most of you say, 'When I get that I will be joyful.' And we say, until you are joyful, you will not get that. You must start with the decision-with the determination-with the insistence that, 'I will not settle for less than feeling good.' Esther Hicks
happiness joy stuff
The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel. Esther Hicks
happiness responsibility practice
Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook." And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they're doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel-and then, you'll love them all. Because the only reason you don't love them, is because you're using them as your excuse to not feel good. Esther Hicks
happiness inspiring success
We are all gifted. That is our inheritance. Ethel Waters
happiness serious daring
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. Eudora Welty
happiness keys doors
Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter. Ernest Holmes
happiness creating
The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness. Ernest Holmes
happiness laughter humor
When humor goes, there goes civilization. Erma Bombeck
happiness hurt pain
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Erma Bombeck
happiness thinking happy-again
It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again. Florence Henderson
happiness thinking things-in-life
You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it. Florence Scovel Shinn
happiness inspirational-life nursing
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. Florence Nightingale
happiness survival routine
If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival. Flannery O'Connor