Happiness Quotes - Page 43

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

We're born to be happy, all of us.

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

I always wanted to be somebody...If I've made it, it's half because I was game to take a wicked amount of punishment along the way, and half because there were an awful lot of people who cared enough to help me.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.

When you're Happy for No Reason, you bring happiness to your outer experiences rather than trying to extract happiness from them. You don't need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!