Happiness Quotes - Page 29

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.

I've realized that being happy is a choice.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good.

Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.

In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.

Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥

Happiness is a warm puppy.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.