Happiness Quotes - Page 22

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook." And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they're doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel-and then, you'll love them all. Because the only reason you don't love them, is because you're using them as your excuse to not feel good.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate... Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.

A smile is the universal welcome.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

For each time you smile you will find it's true somebody, somewhere, will smile back at you.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Happiness only real when shared.

Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.

Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.