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You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.
We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.
But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
Talking about our problems is our greatest additction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.
I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.
As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.
If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?
When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.
The supreme attainment of human life is divine bliss. Divine bliss is the nature of the Self.
You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?
How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.
The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.
Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.
He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.
Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.
When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.
I always associate blonde with sunshine and puppies and happiness, but I don't think sexiness.
The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!