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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
Be happy, and a reason will come along.
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Happiness is a decision.
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.
I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.
Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude.
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.
It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.
People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church - even if they don't share your beliefs - as long as they find the content engaging and helpful.
Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it's different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.
And keep a sense of humor. It doesn't mean you have to tell jokes. If you can't think of anything else, when you're my age, take off your clothes and walk in front of a mirror. I guarantee you'll get a laugh.
If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.
I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.
I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.
Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature-not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant....As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother's toy garden.
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
Laughter can bring a new perspective.
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.
The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.
Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.
Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.
You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.
When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition.
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.
Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.
If you could do something that would make people happy, and it would cost you neither money nor time, would you do it? If that same thing made you happy, would you do it? What is this magical thing that will brighten your day and the days of people around you and yet cost you nothing? A smile.
There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.
Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.
Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility.
Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
The healthiest response to life is joy.
Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow
I'm pretty happy for someone who struggles with happiness.
Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.
It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.
Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.
By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.
To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
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.
The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.
Never limit your view of life by any past experience.
If you knew everything was really was all right, and that it always has a happy ending, then you would not feel trepidacious about your future. Everything is really so very all right! If you could believe and trust that, then, immediately everything would automatically and instantly become all right.
I'm going to be happy. I'm going to skip. I'm going to be glad. I'm going to be easy. I'm going to count my blessings. I'm going to look for reasons to feel good. I'm going to dig up positive things from the past. I'm going to look for positive things where I stand. I'm going to look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It's natural for me to love and to laugh. This is what is most natural for me. I am a happy person.
The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy. Most of you say, 'When I get that I will be joyful.' And we say, until you are joyful, you will not get that. You must start with the decision-with the determination-with the insistence that, 'I will not settle for less than feeling good.'
Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.
Let your alignment (with Well-Being) be first and foremost, and let everything else be secondary. And not only will you have an eternally joyous journey, but everything you have ever imagined will flow effortlessly into your experience. There is nothing you cannot be or do or have—but your dominant intent is to be joyful. The doing and the having will come into alignment once you get that one down.
Always, when you know what you don't want, that's when the rocket of desire is born of what you do want. That is the fruit of your experience. Now pluck it and savor it and enjoy it. Visualize it, and find the feeling place of it. And live happily ever after, once you get the hang of this.
Happiness hates the timid. So does science.
Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.
Enough is abundance to the wise.
There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
