Happiness Quotes - Page 30

A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.

Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

Peace of heart - without it, no good can make us happy. With it, every trial, even the approach of death, can be borne.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Money doesn't buy happiness. Some people say it's a heck of a down payment, though.

We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second -- and best -- in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night's sleep and not being hurt by new shoes.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

It is only in the depths of silence that the voice of God can be heard.

Fill the cup of happiness for others, and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.