Happiness Quotes
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
Adults are the first and foremost teachers of love, peace, truth, tolerance, happiness and spirituality to their children. No school on Earth can ever replace them.
If your enemy is happy, then why would they be bothered to be your enemy? Being someone's enemy is no fun. It does not add to happiness.
Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.
Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.
Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness
To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful
Never sacrifice happiness for the sake of achievement. The real key to life is to happily achieve
Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life's purpose.
Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission.
The yoga tradition asserts that lasting happiness is dependent on prospering both materially and spiritually.
Of course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration.
Learning to honor all four of your soul's desires compels you to thrive at every level, leads to lasting happiness as well as a complete and balanced life.
I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.
He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.
Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.
When you smile you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.
For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.
You just have to smile and breathe. You do the best you can with what you have and that's it.
Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness.
Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.
Struggle is actually something that is important to the process of understanding what true happiness is.
All my moves were designed to promote the happiness and wellbeing of my family, rather than fame.
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets.
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.
Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.
In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.
Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.
We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.
He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her.
Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.