Happiness Quotes - Page 33

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Don't stay watching happiness, make it.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

The secret art of inviting happiness The miraculous medicine of all diseases Just for today, do not anger Do not worry and be filled with gratitude Devote yourself to your work. Be kind to people. Every morning and evening, join your hands in prayer. Pray these words to your heart and chant these words with your mouth Usui Reiki Treatment for the improvement of body and mind

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Gratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: 'What do I really need right now to be happy?' What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.

Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was no conscious goal, secretly nurtured in cellar or jungle by bearded conspirators, but a reluctant last resort, to preserve "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.