Happiness Quotes - Page 117

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Integrity is about being integrated with the spiritual values of the Universe. It is also about being happy, because happiness and joy mean that you're coming into integrity with your soul.

We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today...if you don't have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You probably won't start living happily ever after, but you may start living happily, purposefully, and with gratitude...Goals are gratitude in action. They give us the opportunity to build on what we already have. While achieving goals can be a lengthy process, we can learn to be grateful for each stage in the process of setting and meeting goals.

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Love is the only effective counter to death.

I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.

Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.

The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

You can search high & low to find happiness on earth, yet unless you love yourself, you will never find your true belonging.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.