Happiness Quotes - Page 88

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not come from government, it comes from the creator of life.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.

You cannot struggle to joy. Struggle and joy are not on the same channel. You joy your way to joy. You laugh your way to success. It is through your joy that good things come.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.

To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.

Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.

Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.