Happiness Quotes - Page 114

What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine...An inner joyousness, amounting to ecstasy, is the normal condition of the genius mind. Any lack of that joyousness develops body-destroying toxins. That inner ecstasy of the mind is the secret fountain of perpetual youth and strength in any man. He who finds it finds omnipotence and omniscience.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.

View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc

To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

And I sort of look at us as two of the luckiest guys [Bill Gates the other] on the planet because we found what we loved to do and we were at the right place at the right time and we've gotten to go to work every day with super bright people for 30 years and do what we love doing.

Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or as we are conditioned to see it.

People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

In joy, in peace, in that soothing inner state, you will find happiness.

Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!

Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.

Gratitude is pure happiness. Happiness is sure perfection.

When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.