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When she didn't continue, he shrugged. "Just let me bring you coffee. I want to wait on you. Makes me happy
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Every single day I want you to be happy and full of joy, just like you make me happy by just passing through my mind.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
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.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
If you can make me laugh, my heart is yours! I think there's nothing more attractive than someone who doesn't take themselves too seriously.
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened
The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.
Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, 'I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.' That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.
Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights.
Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.
Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.