Happiness Quotes - Page 45

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.

It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

Happiness is NOW! It isn't tomorrow. It isn't yesterday. Happiness is like a morning glory: Yesterday's won't bloom again; tomorrow's hasn't opened yet. Only today's flower can be enjoyed today. Be happy this very moment, and you'll learn how to be happy always.

Money can't buy happiness—but it can buy beer.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.

Until you take ownership for your life, you will always be chasing happiness.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.

One of the bonuses about loving yourself is that you get to feel good.

The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of the heart's existence is in this calm equable light, even although it be only moonshine or twilight. Now the mind alone can obtain for us this heavenly cheerfulness and peace.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance