Happiness Quotes - Page 74

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.

I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.

You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.

Enough is abundance to the wise.

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

You can't say you're happy either. You don't even smile for me.

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

Smile, it's free therapy.

Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which is the only thing capable of providing lasting peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others and it is based on love and affection.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.