Happiness Quotes - Page 77

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.

The day of individual happiness has passed.

It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.

I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog resp‎onding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers, in minds that are contented with simple living.

It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.