Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

Lin Yutang

All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

Laurie Colwin

It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.

L. Ron Hubbard

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

Swami Vivekananda

Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

Tony Robbins

My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.

Tony Robbins

Nothing has to happen for me to feel good! I feel good because I'm alive! Life is a gift, and I revel in it.

Tony Robbins

Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.

Tony Robbins

We're not happy unless we feel like we're growing.

Tony Robbins

Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog resp‎onding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.

Susan Sarandon

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional in such circumstances as you or I, but their secret weapon is the poise and strength they show in coping in the face of challenge.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day of your life.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e., seeking wealth or attractiveness or better colleagues, which is usually impractical), but in our daily intentional activities.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings. In sum, our intentional, effortful activities have a powerful effect on how happy we are, over and above the effects of our set points and the circumstances in which we find themselves. If an unhappy person wants to experience interest, enthusiasm, contentment, peace, and joy, he or she can make it happen by learning the habits of a happy person.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.

Solon

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Solon

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Steve Jobs

And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing.

Stephen Fry

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

Srikumar Rao

I don't focus on happiness as a goal or an end.

Sri Chinmoy

Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don't you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied.

Sri Chinmoy

My Lord does not want to know what I have done for Him. He just wants to know how I am. If he hears from me that I am happy, then he himself becomes exceedingly happy. In umistakable terms He tells me that my happiness is His real and only Satisfaction.

Sri Chinmoy

True happiness Is not a mental hallucination. True happiness Is not a complacent feeling. True happiness Is the spontaneous feeling of joy That comes from knowing 132 You are doing the right thing 133 And leading a divine life.

Sri Chinmoy

The way to become happy Is to think And to feel That the very best is yet to come.

Sri Chinmoy

O kindle the fire of happiness ! Therein I shall see The door of friendliness, The room of greatness And the palace of godness. I shall see, I shall see.

Sri Chinmoy

Of all the gifts You have offered to God, Your happiness-gift He treasures most.

Sri Chinmoy

Enthusiasm Rules his inner world. Determination Rules his outer world. Therefore Happiness has become His real name.

Sri Chinmoy

Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.