Happy Quotes - Page 2

Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces.

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.

It is a basic human need that everyone wants to live a happy life. For this, one has to experience real happiness. The so-called happiness that one experiences by having money, power, and indulging in sensual pleasures is not real happiness. It is very fragile, unstable and fleeting. For real happiness, for lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and get rid of all the unhappiness stored in the deeper levels of the mind. As long as there is misery at the depth of the mind all attempts to feel happy at the surface level of the mind prove futile.

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

All people go to Allah after their death, but the happy person is the one who goes to Allah while still alive.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Happy relationships don't just happen. You make them happen.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

I'm not interested in fame and glory. It's just that I would like others to know what a happy dance this is.