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Happiness Quotes
"Happiness is the appreciation of what you have, not what you should have."
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"My life is never empty because my heart is always full."
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"How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it."
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"It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories."
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"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."
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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves-say rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves."
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"Happiness is an awareness, perception, feeling, and imagination. Happiness is a state of mind not a condition."
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"The world of wonders!"
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"I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was."
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"So, have we solved the secret of happiness? "I believe so," he said. Are you going to tell me? "Yes. Ready?" Ready. "Be satisfied." That's it? "Be grateful." That's it? "For what you have. For the love you receive. And for what God has given you." That's it? He looked me in the eye. Then he sighed deeply. "That's it."
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"One could be happy not only without love, but despite it."
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"It's not a matter of whether you want happiness. We all need peace, love, and happiness. But, if you fail to nurture your spirit, by absorbing all things good and giving attention to the matters of your heart, it will be hard to obtain. It must radiate from inside of you. Then, flow outwardly penetrating everyone around you."
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"I celebrate who I am, what I love, and all of my blessings that lead to joy."
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"Don't wait for a reason to feel the joy. Life is for joy."
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"Happiness is good management of expectations and good management means making order and assembling the contingent elements of the "do's'" and the "don'ts", the "maybe yes'" and the "maybe not's". When we really want to live in agreement with ourselves and find peace with the surrounding world, good management is liberating. [' Expectations ']"
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"A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on."
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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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"They couldn't have known that even this was a lie-that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along."
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"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."
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"Happiness is there when you have great imagination and vision, when you take relentless action and love your creation."
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"Don't let your circumstances and the events in your life rob you of the joy of celebration."
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"I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness."
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