Happiness Quotes - Page 99

We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

If you want to find greater happiness and fulfillment in your life, you must begin to understand and live in harmony with the law of attraction.

When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.

Happiness is a thing of now.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

Books make up no small part of human happiness.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again.

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.