Happiness Quotes - Page 15

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present...Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don't hold on to a few bars of the music. Don't hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass.

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.