Happiness Quotes - Page 8

When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour

The value of a smile... It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.

There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, - that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.

You must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.