Happiness Quotes - Page 126

Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?

When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

The only way to win happiness is to give it. The more we give, the more we have.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

Sunny days give us happiness; stormy days give us wisdom.

The unhappy are prisoners of a single round of thought.

Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

When people are deeply happy they bring a sense of purpose with them wherever they go, whatever circumstances they are in. So if they're changing the oil in the car, they bring a sense of joyful purpose even to that.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.