Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rutherford B. Hayes

So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.

Ruth Benedict

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

W. H. Auden

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

W. H. Auden

No being can make another one happy.

William Cobbett

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

William Cowper

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Wayne Dyer

Arrange photographs of nature scenes, animals and expressions of joy and love in your environment and let their energy radiate into your heart and provide you with their higher frequency.

Wayne Dyer

Abundance is about looking at life and knowing that you have everything you need for complete happiness, and then being able to celebrate each and every moment on earth.

Wayne Dyer

It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true.

Wayne Dyer

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc

Ursula K. Le Guin

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Twyla Tharp

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

Twyla Tharp

Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.

Tristan Bernard

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

William Arthur Ward

Happiness is an inside job.

William Arthur Ward

Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?

Wilferd Peterson

Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.

Wavy Gravy

Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

W. Somerset Maugham

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

Yakov Smirnoff

When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

Yakov Smirnoff

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

Yakov Smirnoff

I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists--merely in the imagination.

William Makepeace Thackeray

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.