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Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.
Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.
Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.
The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.
The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.
I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.
Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
If you do not decide to be happy, very few people can make you happy. If you decide to be happy, very few people can make you unhappy.
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
The road to happiness has never been a straight one, and yet, it is the only road worth traveling, no matter how curvy or rocky it is!
Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
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.
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return
Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day of your life.
Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go.
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.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.
There is an eternal love between the water drop and the leaf. When you look at them, you can see that they both shine out of happiness.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Whatever you experience outwardly, take it within yourself and say 'I'm happy because I'm happy. I'm happy because God is in my heart.'
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.
So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.
To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.
Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.
Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.