Happiness Quotes - Page 20

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.

True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling on illness, fear, disease and pain does just the opposite. Your work is to notice and change your thoughts and move them in the direction of health and happiness.

Each person discovers a field of allurements, the totality of which bears the unique stamp of that person’s personality. Destiny unfolds in the pursuit of individual fascinations and interests... By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

The right to happiness is fundamental.