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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.
I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.
A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.
To lead happy, contented, peaceful lives, remember all the good times you share with others, forget all the good you do for others.
When you are happy, when you are laughing, when you are loving, the radiance of your Soul shines through, and all are lifted by it.
Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.
You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far.
You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.
Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
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.
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.
The most damaging erroneous belief about happiness is, of course, that happiness is somewhere else--that is, that it is not with you.
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.'
Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.
I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
Inner success is the ongoing experience of love, happiness, fulfillment and well-being - the experience of joy in your everyday life.
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.
If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.
It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.
It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Just remember... it doesn't matter how long you have known each other.. all that matters is that he has kept you smiling from day one
You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.