Happiness Quotes - Page 84

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Get into the habit of laughing; too many of us have forgotten how to laugh. As people grow older, they sometimes forget that they ever laughed. It is a part of their childhood that they can no longer remember.

The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.

Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism, the impenetrable, separate, and individuated self is more of the problem than the solution.

Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.

How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

Beauty comes from the happiness within.

Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

You do this, you do that You argue left, you argue right You come down, you go up This person says no, you say yes Back and forth You are happy You are really happy

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.

Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.

The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.