Happiness Quotes - Page 59

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

Success on the outside indeed begins with success on the inside.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender -not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid

Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.

People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.