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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see
THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?
Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been.
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.
I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
When we are happy, those around us will be happy, and in turn, those around them will also start to feel the same way. We always have to start with ourself, and the best place to start is to do what makes you feel joyful.
Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.
Happiness is a sort of action.
Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.
One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.
Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.
There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.
The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Don't get bogged down with all the details of how it's going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.
If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.
Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.
I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
A multitude of small delights constitute happiness
What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.
If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.
Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand... I don't need that anymore. I don't need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.
There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself....The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings.
Happiness only real when shared.
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?
Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!
Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger and attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.
The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.
Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs...or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them.
How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
The "18/40/60" rule to happiness: At age 18, people care very much about what others think of them. By age 40, they learn not to worry what others think. By age 60, they figure out that no one was thinking about them in the first place.
There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.
The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.
Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility.
Don't confuse comfort with happiness.
Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits.
You don't need others to change in order to be happy.
Seriousness is equated with responsibility, when, in fact, I think we would be much more responsible if we had more joy and laughter in our lives.
It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.
Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.
Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.
Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?
Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.
Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well
Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.
Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.
I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.
Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.
Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.
Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.
Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.
There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike.
I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.
Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies.
