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Happiness Quotes
"I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
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"A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more."
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"This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her advice in the face of melancholy is: 'Think about all the suffering in the world and be thankful you're not part of it.' My advice is: 'Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself, think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy."
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"Stop listening to people who don't experience happiness, success, peace, and fulfillment themselves. Don't let them tell you what is right and wrong!"
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"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."
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"Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope."
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"It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too."
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"We are as happy as we think we are."
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"Happiness is a journey that starts with you. If you can't find it within you, it will be logically impossible for you to make others around you happy."
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"Where will we spend eternity-with God in that place of endless joy the Bible calls heaven, or apart from Him in that place of endless despair the Bible calls hell?"
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"Be the celebrators, celebrate! Already there is too much-the flowers have bloomed, the birds are singing, the sun is there in the sky-celebrate it! You are breathing and you are alive and you have consciousness, celebrate it!"
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"That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem."
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"The key to happiness is under the doorstep rug."
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"Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful."
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"That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition no vanity but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments."
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"Happiness softens trials, changes perspective, elevates attitudes, focuses attention, redirects negativity, empowers us to see more clearly, and expands, widens, lifts, ennobles and deepens the sense of meaning and purpose we discover in life."
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"I have yet to see Satan overcome a truly joyful Christian."
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"What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?"
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"Life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts."
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"Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception."
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"You smoked another cigarette and we shared another coffee and it was just another morning that made me realise that this is all it takes to be happy."
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"Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity."
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"I want you to be happy and for me to be part of that happiness."
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"No matter what the climate is, what the troubles are, what the difficulties are, there is joy for the child of God, because joy is produced supernaturally by the Holy Spirit in us."
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"An aspiration is a joy forever a possession as solid as a landed estate a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity."
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"True happiness involves the freedom to be yourself."
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"Pleasure is 'suffering' (vedna) and pain is distress as well. If pleasure is 'suffering', it cannot be considered a pleasure. If pleasure is enjoyed excessively, it becomes 'suffering'. How can it be considered a pleasure? These are all entanglements of those living in illusion [of the Self]. To live in the ocean of happiness and yet no dislike arises; that is known as true happiness."
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"I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works."
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"I missed the joy of seeing our children grow and change. I thank God for watching over them during those years."
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"You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about other people - which means there is no way out. Happy and judged or absolved and miserable."
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