Happiness Quotes - Page 112

Always, when you know what you don't want, that's when the rocket of desire is born of what you do want. That is the fruit of your experience. Now pluck it and savor it and enjoy it. Visualize it, and find the feeling place of it. And live happily ever after, once you get the hang of this.

Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.

Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.

Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

The key to lasting happiness is to stop looking for it, and to know that you already have it.

Create happiness for others.

Genuine happiness comes from focusing on the happiness of others.

Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We achieve happiness, prosperity and progress through social interaction. Therefore, having a kind and helpful attitude contributes to our own and others' happiness.

Happiness can be achieved through training the mind.

Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but know how to use her benefits.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.

There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice. That's why the founding fathers wrote it up the way they did, I suppose. Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Everyone is entitled to those things.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?

You want to reclaim your country? You got to go back to the first men who started this country, the founding fathers and this is going to be shocking for the liberal professors out there that are indoctrinating our kids but the founding fathers believed in the Judeo-Christian god that believed we have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! You can pursuit it. If you don't get it, it's your fault! You messed up. Go back to work. Work harder.

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.