Happiness Quotes - Page 111

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

It's time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

Be happy. Talk happiness.

Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.

Be able to laugh at difficulties.

People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.

I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.

But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

The will of man is his happiness.

You don't have to do anything to be happy, nor do you have to avoid anything. Happiness comes from within your mind. Happiness already exists.

Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.

Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in light and love.

Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want.