Happiness Quotes - Page 65

As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.

The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

None of those material possessions do anything to make your life any better.... I know a lot of people who have a lot of everything, and they're absolutely the most miserable people in the world. So it won't do anything for you unless you're a happy person and can have peace with yourself.

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause of our future happiness and peace of mind.

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up in life that they forget the purpose of life is to be happy.

Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person.

There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise of new levels of employment, industrial activity and human happiness.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.

The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.