Happiness Quotes - Page 35

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

Money can't buy happiness.

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

When we understand clearly that inner peace is the real source of happiness, and how, through spiritual practice, we can experience progressively deeper levels of inner peace, we will develop tremendous enthusiasm to practice

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Winning means being unafraid to lose.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

A negative mind will never give you a positive life.

Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

Sometimes we get wrong notions, we think we have to be in a luxurious house, in a large city, with a new car in order to be happy. Happiness isn't there. Happiness isn't in a new car, it isn't in a new and luxurious apartment. Happiness isn't in banks and stocks. Happiness is where you make it, it's up to you. It comes from within, it doesn't come from things.

Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.