Happiness Quotes - Page 154

I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.

Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices.

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.

How you feel right now is about equally genetic and circumstantial, but how you will feel on average over the next ten years is fully 80 percent because of your genes.

True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.

Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.

In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves.

The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!

He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.

Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.

Misery generates hate.

Happiness is not something that you pursue; it is something that you allow. Happiness is just being.

Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature-not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant....As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother's toy garden.

Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

Unhappiness was my god.

Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.