Happiness Quotes - Page 51

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.

Next to worry probably one of the most potent causes of unhappiness is envy.

We’re all alive, but we don’t know why or what for; we’re all searching for happiness; we’re all leading lives which are different and yet the same.

If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it's telling you something isn't right.

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.

How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.

He who sings frightens away his ills.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.