Happiness Quotes - Page 56

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and good-will into their relations.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Happiness can be thought, taught and caught... but not bought.

The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness.

He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.