Happiness Quotes - Page 36

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel -or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

Being joyful is our natural state of being.

The "18/40/60" rule to happiness: At age 18, people care very much about what others think of them. By age 40, they learn not to worry what others think. By age 60, they figure out that no one was thinking about them in the first place.

There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.