Happiness Quotes - Page 109

Being on top of the world doesn't mean anything unless you know what it's like to be at the bottom.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

A life without a cause is a life without effect.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

My unhappiness protects me from life.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%-when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.

The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.

The moment where the fisherman catches the fish, happiness and agony, light and darkness, joy and death come face to face!

True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.

...if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.

Her theme was happiness: what it was; what it was not; where we might find it, where not; and how, if found, it must be guarded. Never must we confound it with pleasure. Nor think sorrow its exact opposite.

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.