Happiness Quotes - Page 153

It's not insincere to say you're happy if your determined to make it true and live in that consciousness.

A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

In recent years our knowledge of modern technology has increased considerably, and as a result we have witnessed remarkable material progress, but there has not been a corresponding increase in human happiness. There is no less suffering in the world today, and there are no fewer problems. Indeed, it might be said that there are now more problems and greater dangers than ever before.

To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you are, how aware of your eternal part you are.

Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.

Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves; like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

You cannot judge the value of a life by its quantity. It is by the joy that you are feeling. The more joyful you are, the longer you live. Let yourself relax and breathe and be free and be joyous, and romp.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

If we can stay awake when our lives are changing, secrets will be revealed to us-secrets about ourselves, about the nature of life, and about the eternal source of happiness and peace that is always available, always renewable, already within us.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can’t expect years and years of it.