Happiness Quotes - Page 121

The ego's form of happiness can't exist without unhappiness. The ego will be happy when something good happens but unhappy when it ends.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing.

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

You don't find happiness, you make happiness.

Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.

Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.

Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.

One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.

Love is someone you can be silly with

July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, which gave notice to the world that they proposed to establish an independent nation on the theory that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'

I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.