Quotes about happiness
happiness war concentration
After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy. Loudon Wainwright III
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 heart brain
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. Leo Rosten
happiness circumstances internals
Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away. Leo Buscaglia
happiness death lost-love
Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?
happiness joy missing
To miss out on joy is to miss out on the reason for your existence. Lewis B. Smedes
happiness war odds
Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.
happiness wish woods
I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like! Lewis Carroll
happiness sweet advice
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
happiness success perseverance
You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you. Josephine Baker
happiness gratitude laughter
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. Joseph Wood Krutch
happiness self people
The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss. Joseph Campbell
happiness laughter grief
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die. Karl Shapiro
happiness fighting inner-peace
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative. Karl Popper
happiness handle
God never sends us more than we can handle. Mother Teresa
happiness happy faith
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
happiness smile beautiful
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
happiness flow entertainment
Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
happiness desire purpose
Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.
happiness successful form
A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.
happiness joy everyday
How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.
happiness people quality
What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
happiness beautiful heart
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. Pearl S. Buck
happiness growth germs
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
happiness music laughter
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world. Peter Ustinov