Happiness Quotes
close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere
The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body
The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.
Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.
He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.
A dolphin's smile is the greatest deception. It creates the illusion that they're always happy.
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
I try not to waste time feeling bad for myself, because when I do, there's no room for happiness.
But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.
Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.
If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.
Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
