Happiness Quotes - Page 52

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

Things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us.

To achieve that state of lasting happiness and absolute peace, we must first know how to calm the mind, to concentrate and go beyond the mind. By turning the mind's concentration inward, upon the self, we can deepen that experience of perfect concentration. This is the state of Meditation.

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Earth laughs in flowers.

If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved.

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don’t believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

The true American dream not only provides the freedom to use your gifts and talents to achieve your highest goal but also gives you the freedom to fulfill your purpose in life. You are meant to work in ways that suit you, drawing on your natural talents and gifts. This work, when you find it and commit to it - even if only as a hobby - is the key to happiness.

It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

So, how do you get back to heaven? To begin with, just notice the thoughts that take you away from it. You don't have to believe everything your thoughts tell you. Just become familiar with the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. It may seem strange at first to get to know yourself in this way, but becoming familiar with your stressful thoughts will show you the way home to everything you need.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.