Happiness Quotes - Page 49

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Money can't buy happiness but it's more comfortable to cry in a Bugatti than on a bicycle.

The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the lamp; it only matters that the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, every thought of forgiveness, every meditation, every act of love, we plug in. The more of us who plug in, to more the darkness of the world will be cast from our midst. Today, let's all increase love's wattage!

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

This is what my soul is telling me: be peaceful and love everyone.

Action expresses priorities.

Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.

The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.

If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice.

But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.

It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

Exuberance is beauty.

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.

There can be no joy in living without joy in work.

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more.