Happiness Quotes - Page 80

Happy the heart where love has come to birth.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional in such circumstances as you or I, but their secret weapon is the poise and strength they show in coping in the face of challenge.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Lowering your standards is the key to happiness.

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in.

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

If there is some aspect of creation you find you do not enjoy, bless it and simply change it. Choose again. Call forth a new reality. Think a new thought. Say a new word. Do a new thing.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.

Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I can, I enjoy my beloved, my family, my friends, my apprentices. But mainly I enjoy myself, because I am with myself all the time. Why should I spend my precious time with myself judging myself, rejecting myself, creating guilt and shame? Why should I push myself to be angry or jealous? If I don't feel good emotionally, I find out what is causing it and I fix it. Then I can recover my happiness and keep going with my story.

You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.