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Happiness Quotes
"You have what you need to be happy."
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"The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness."
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"Achieving your heart's desires is the key to living a life of bliss."
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"Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or less probable: our happiness is never in our own hands; we inherit our constitution; we stand buffet among friends and enemies; we may be so built as to feel a sneer or an aspersion with unusual keenness and so circumstanced as to be unusually exposed to them; we may have nerves very sensitive to pain, and be afflicted with a disease very painful. Virtue will not help us, and it is not meant to help us."
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"Cherish the fabulous, the fantastic, the beautiful, the graceful, the moments of abandon, laughter, quirkiness. Cherish the tiny incredible details, the gigantic & varied display, and the infinite depths - of life."
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"A smile is on everyone's lips."
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"Smiles show fullness of a joyful soul."
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"I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you. This is where I disagree with the philosophers. They talk about passionate things but there is no passion in them. Never talk happiness with a philosopher."
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"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."
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"Happiness lies even in tiny little butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise."
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"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
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"Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure."
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"One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all."
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"We have at our fingertips every pleasure that man is capable of enjoying, and man has abused every gift God ever gave him."
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"Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before."
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"Happiness is simply a habit of looking on the brighter side of everything."
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"Finding happiness by delivering it."
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"Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be."
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"When you wake up every morning, let thanksgiving be your first thought."
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"For him, too, starting over, departures, a new life had a certain luster, but he knew that only the impotent and the lazy attach happiness to such things. Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire. He could hear Zagreus: "Not the will to renounce, but the will to happiness."
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"Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary."
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"Do you really want happiness? Then you will have to pay the price of humbling yourself at the foot of the cross and receiving Christ as Savior."
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