Happiness Quotes - Page 54

If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.

I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.

It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.