Happiness Quotes - Page 105

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.

If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful

Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause.

The healthiest response to life is joy.

Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility.

There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.

Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.

Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed even by the most uncomfortable circumstances. If you nurse hatred, however, you will not be happy even in the lap of luxury. Thus, if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love. This is both religious thinking and basic common sense.

The key to genuine happiness is in our hands. To think this way is to discover the essential values of kindness, brotherly love and altruism. The more clearly we see the benefits of these values, the more we will seek to reject anything that opposes them; in this way we will be able to bring about inner transformation.

The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.