Quotes about happiness
happiness thinking select
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them. Marcus Aurelius
happiness care virtue
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
happiness sad broken-heart
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
happiness perfection mind
Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.
happiness peace philosophical
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
happiness happy motivation
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
happiness joy ifs
Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully. Thomas a Kempis
happiness time reflection
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
happiness inspiring success
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. Thomas A. Edison
happiness joy embrace
Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything. Ralph Waldo Emerson
happiness letting-go unnecessary
True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary. Sharon Salzberg
happiness happy lying
We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.
happiness dark light
It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.
happiness being-happy wisdom
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. Sigmund Freud
happiness men littles
One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
happiness happy joy
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
happiness thinking order
We have been accustomed to thinking that we have to get something from outside us in order to be happy, but in truth it works the other way: we must learn to contact our inner source of happiness and satisfaction and flow it outward to share with others-not because it is virtuous to do so, but because it really feels good. Shakti Gawain
happiness success perseverance
In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place. Susan L. Taylor
happiness goal perfection
Our goal is to enjoy, not to achieve perfection Susan Jeffers
happiness
Happiness is seasonal, like anything else Sue Grafton
happiness grief unhappy-childhood
People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.
happiness way seems
The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy. Robert Browning
happiness happy
Make us happy and you make us good.
happiness believe feelings
Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you're happy and believe in yourself. Richard Simmons
happiness dark garden
I have sat here happy in the gardens, Watching the still pool and the reeds And the dark clouds. . . . But though I greatly delight In these and the water lilies, That which sets me nighest to weeping Is the rose and white colour of the smooth flag-stones, And the pale yellow grasses Among them. Richard Aldington
happiness laughter heartache
No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds. Red Skelton
happiness children reason
God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.
happiness spring taken
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
happiness laughter sadness
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
happiness joy enough
It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be. Jules Renard
happiness want humans
Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have. Josh Billings
happiness way fit
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
happiness hunting skeletons
Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.