Happiness Quotes - Page 25

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy.

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself....The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

You can't save the world...save YOUR heart. Be a catalyst & create a life where you are powerful. Rebel. Be happy & allow others happiness.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.