Happiness Quotes - Page 103

Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive . and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.

The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Each time you look at a tangerine, you can see deeply into it. You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine. When you peel it and smell it, it’s wonderful. You can take your time eating a tangerine and be very happy.

Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.

Happiness is often somewhere near us, not in the far places!

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Taking ownership of your happiness has two aspects: Accepting that being happy is up to you and that you have the ability and power to be happier by changing your habits. Taking "response-ability": responding to all the events in your life in a way that supports your happiness.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

Be happy, but be happy through piety.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

It was probably a mistake to pursue happiness; much better to create happiness; still better to create happiness for others. The more happiness you created for others the more would be yours-a solid satisfaction that no one could ever take away from you.