Quotes about happiness
happiness laughter men
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy. John D. Rockefeller
happiness encouragement health
Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
happiness laughter reality
I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can. Linda Ellerbee
happiness love-is people
People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves. Leo Tolstoy
happiness ideas knows
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
happiness soul growth
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
happiness believe order
Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
happiness vacation each-day
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
happiness want want-to-be-happy
If you want to be happy, be.
happiness letting-go struggle
The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle. Pema Chodron
happiness thinking things-in-life
Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them. Peter Cook
happiness inspiring success
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. Pearl Bailey
happiness smile laughter
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. Phyllis Diller
happiness oasis desert
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. Rachel Field
happiness smile beauty
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. Rabindranath Tagore
happiness hate cat
Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend. Keith Douglas
happiness real self
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one's Self is to be blissful always. Ramana Maharshi
happiness real finals
We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end - it's not the final curtain - it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing. Ralph Lauren
happiness mean world
Being on top of the world doesn't mean anything unless you know what it's like to be at the bottom. Rachel Smith
happiness two people
Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for. Rainbow Rowell
happiness book wind
Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend. Ralph Waldo Emerson
happiness success wisdom
A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.
happiness girl mean
Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
happiness mind way
I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.
happiness sacrifice good-man
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
happiness being-happy self
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
happiness mistake giving
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
happiness humans sensuous
All human happiness is sensuous happiness. Lin Yutang
happiness children hands
It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse. Laurie Colwin
happiness goal overcoming
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. L. Ron Hubbard
happiness work joy
There can be no joy in living without joy in work. Thomas Aquinas
happiness enough prove-it
It isn't enough to love; we must prove it. Therese of Lisieux
happiness heart brain
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. Leo Rosten