Happiness Quotes - Page 23

There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.

‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

You will never be able to find happiness if you stay attached to the wrong person and don't move on.

I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life.. whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.

I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.