Happy Quotes - Page 14

The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.

You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

If you're not happy without it, you'll never be happy with it.

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty, persecution and death. Do not be surprised if you suffer, but glorify God.

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.

There's no such thing as good weather, or bad weather. There's just weather and your attitude towards it.

Sex appeal alone is the poorest basis in the world for a happy marriage.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us is a just visitor to this planet, a guest, who will only stay for a limited time. What greater folly could there be than to spend this short time alone, unhappy or in conflict with our companions? Far better, surely, to use our short time here in living a meaningful life, enriched by our sense of connection with others and being of service to them.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman.

Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.