Happiness Quotes - Page 31

Don't ever let someone tell you you can't do something.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Do what you will while you're able, find what it is that you seek.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."