Happiness Quotes - Page 16

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.

You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

The secret of happiness is renunciation.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

Remember the saying, What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger? It's true!

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.