Happy Quotes - Page 6

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice

You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent, Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself - And there isn’t one.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

The earth paints a portrait of the sun at dawn with sunflowers in bloom. Unhappy with the portrait, she erases it and paints it again and again.