Happiness Quotes
When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.
While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.
People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests
Love is the reason why, even in suffering, we smile.
You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.
If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.
A smile can express more than a thousand feelings, but to me The Unknown, its the deadliest weapon i was created with and have control over
I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.
To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.
He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.
And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.
Sometimes you forget how much you love someone, until you realize their smile is like a spotlight shined on your heart.
Since there are thousands of reasons to be happy, let us smile so many thousands times!
Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.
When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!
People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself
Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness
I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.
The cosmos is structured to bring about growth, and growth is always in the direction of greater love and happiness.
As you take steps to expand your awareness, you will naturally find yourself harnessing your mind's infinite power to create greater health, happiness, and love in your life.
You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.
I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.
We're just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else.
If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.
A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.
Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.
Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness
Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are.
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.
The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.
Sometimes I think it's easier to think about being happier, for what ever that means to you then worrying about what is happiness and what would life be if I finally achieved this ultimate happiness?
There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don't coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?
It is possible, you know, to drift off to an unknown world and find happiness there. Maybe even more happiness than you've ever known before.