Happiness Quotes - Page 81

Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Happiness is only available with total acceptance of who you are, including all your fears, worries, and anxiety. It will be there for you when you can see your own inner beauty. You cannot achieve happiness without using your past, your flaws, insecurities, and imperfections in a positive way. It is about letting go and detaching from unhealthy people, ideas, and lifestyle choices, and replacing them with interdependent, pro-active ways of thinking and responding.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Many of us place top priority not on becoming Christ like in the middle of our problems but on finding happiness.... I must firmly and consciously by an act of my will reject the goal of becoming happy and adopt the goal of becoming more like the Lord.

Family is the center of life. It is the key to eternal happiness.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Life isn't about wishing you were somewhere, or someone that you're not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are and consistently improving both.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.