Happiness Quotes - Page 64

Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

Joy is what we all seek. It is an energy more powerful than food. But without love we can not feel true joy.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

One says that money doesn't buy happiness. Without a doubt, one was speaking of the money of others.

Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.

Beware of Destination Addiction... a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.