Happiness Quotes - Page 67

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Let your alignment (with Well-Being) be first and foremost, and let everything else be secondary. And not only will you have an eternally joyous journey, but everything you have ever imagined will flow effortlessly into your experience. There is nothing you cannot be or do or have—but your dominant intent is to be joyful. The doing and the having will come into alignment once you get that one down.

God has made all men to be happy.

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.

Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.