Happiness Quotes - Page 91

our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

Make joy and happiness the center of your world.

If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world.

Imagine every day to he 5 the last6 of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours, that come unexpectedly, will be so much the more grateful.

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?

Sometimes our thoughts turn back toward a corner in a forest, or the end of a bank, or an orchard powdered with flowers, seen but a single time on some happy day, yet remaining in our hearts and leaving in soul and body an unappeased desire which is not to be forgotten, a feeling that we have just rubbed elbows with happiness.

Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money.

Joy is not dependent upon outward circumstances. Joy is something that we can have under all circumstances when we are sad or happy. Outward circumstances are always neutral. They seem to be happy or sad according to the happy or sad attitudes of the mind.

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.

What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.