Happiness Quotes - Page 63

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

Happiness is a choice.

I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Happiness was born a twin.

You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy.

Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.

As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.

Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

Happiness is a carnival game. It's never as easy as it looks, but the dumb ones always seem to be walking around with a big stuffed animal.

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind... what we sow is what we reap. And when we choose actions that bring happiness and success to others, the fruit of our karma is happiness and success.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.