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Happiness Quotes
"As I focus on diligent joy, I also keep remembering a simple idea my friend Darcey told me once -- that all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people. Not only in the big global Hitler-'n'-Stalin picture, but also on the smallest personal level. Even in my own life, I can see exactly where my episodes of unhappiness have brought suffering or distress or (at the very least) inconvenience to those around me. The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people."
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"To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness."
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"We thrive with thankfulness."
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"We need but little learning to live happily."
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"Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive."
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"I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love."
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"The secret of being happy is not longing for it!"
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"From my tears of happiness I have became a mountain of strength surrounded by a sea of Joy."
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"Be Happy not Satisfied, Focus on what you have to be HAPPY and focus on your potential to feel 'NOT SATISFIED'."
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"Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society."
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"Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy."
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"You ought to pause and enjoy the peace in the moment."
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"Overflowing thanksgiving, glorious grandeur!"
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"There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way."
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"We distill happiness from garnering joy in the ordinary fragments of life, while dedicating personal effort to creating a body of work that one can look back on their deathbed and be satisfied with achieving. Happiness comes from living beautifully, which necessarily involves reason in thought and speech (logos), and leading an ethical and virtuous life devoted to achieving worthy goals."
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"She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past."
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"Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work and the ability to love others.""
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"I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like."
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"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
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"We have to be tuned to God. We will never be free from discouragement and despondency until we know and walk with the very fountainhead of joy."
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"Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather."
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"Sing, laugh and be merry because today you're alive."
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"Life is supposed to be exciting, so journey through each day collecting moments and celebrating the right ones."
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"We might not be grateful for all things, but we can be grateful in all moments."
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"What time is it?""Three a.m. Michael's making a snack. You want anything?""Um...no. Thanks." She slid off the couch and then stood there like an idiot, unwilling to leave because he was still smiling and...she liked it. "Who won?""Which game?""Oh. I guess I was asleep for a while.""Don't worry. We didn't let the zombies get you." This time, his smile was positively wicked. Claire felt it like a hot blanket all over her skin."
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"Society nowadays tells people that their happiness is all that matters but happiness is never found if it costs someone else's theirs. That is not what happiness is, nor would such a person deserve it, because happiness is forged by the setting aside of self and in doing for others to make them happy first and foremost, so if you have to hurt another human being to "find your happiness, then you have no clue what the word actually means or what it's willing to do, and in being so self-centered and entitled, it's veritably tragic that the only care and concern you have is for yourself."
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"Every joy is like a piece of mirror: always reflecting.."
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"Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back."
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"Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy."
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"It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more."
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