Happiness Quotes - Page 101

Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire on our car and be grateful. We can gaze at a person in the distance or at a cloud in the sky and be appreciative. We can smile at a stranger, hug someone we know or tidy a disorganized shelf and be thankful for the opportunity. If we choose gratitude, we will be happy!

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.

You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.

If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.

* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.

I happy am, if well with you.

Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor; so that good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in societ.

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.

Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.