Happiness Quotes - Page 119

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?

Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.

Happiness is a smile of comfort to the sorrowful.

If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand.

Understand that there is no relationship between your inner happiness and your inner joy and the outer things that you experience and behold in the world, that it all begins with you, the world is a mirror to your own Self, when you can look at things and feel joy not in the things but in yourself.

That's what life is for, to find that joy in yourself.

The greatest thing that will please God is that you maintain an attitude of unshakable joy.

Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy.

Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.

Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.

We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy...Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy in reunion...without the pain of captivity, we don't experience the joy of freedom.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.

Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.

Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the slave of the thing that makes you happy. You are a junkie and human relationships can be expensive habits.