Happiness Quotes - Page 46

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?

Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature

To be happy, make other people happy.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

I found happiness when I realized that as imperfect as I may be, I am the perfect Nick Vujicic. I am God's creation, designed according to His plan for me. That's not to say there isn't room for improvement. I'm always trying to be better so I can better serve Him and the world!

Happy is he who can give himself up.

Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing our best. Feeling fulfilled when we live up to our potentialities is what motivates differentiation and leads to evolution.

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself.

Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

You must...know that you are great. Never forget that. It is where true joy lies.

Act the way you WANT to feel.

He who laughs.....lasts.

Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.