Happiness Quotes - Page 145

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Be happy in anticipation of what's coming.

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.

Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. As long as I am my mind, I am those cravings, those needs, wants, attachments, and aversions, and apart from them there is no "I" except as a mere possibility, an unfulfilled potential, a seed that has not yet sprouted.

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.

Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness.