Happiness Quotes - Page 19

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

You can make something of your life, it just depends on your drive.

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive. Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.