Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes

How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

Sarah Ban Breathnach

• Happiness
• Empty
• Abundance

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Giving
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Art
  • Happiness

• Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Different
  • May
  • Understanding

• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Great
  • Home

• I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Responsibility
  • Moments
  • Happiness

• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Remember
  • Giving

• Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Time
  • Great
  • Men

• Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Giving
  • Happiness
  • Thanks

• The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Person
  • Happiness
  • Outside

• I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes

• I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Happy
  • Reality
  • Happiness

• Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Happiness
  • Virtue
  • Reward

• 'I wish I had never been born,' she said. 'What are we born for?' 'For infinite happiness,' said the Spirit. 'You can step out into it at any moment...'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Happiness
  • Spirit
  • Moment

• I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Wish
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Happiness
  • Satisfaction

• There are seasons of darkness, yes? Loss and sadness all around.” He tightens his grip. “But if you are patient, the circle turns, and then there is happiness all around, everything good, everyone happy.” He flings a hand out, palm up, as if scattering glitter. “My friend, he just forgot that happiness is part of living too.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Happiness
  • Darkness
  • Sadness

• There are two words that, when spoken, have the most unfathomable power to completely change your life. Two words which, when they pass your lips, will be the cause of bringing absolute joy and happiness to you. Two words that will create miracles in your life. Two words that will wipe out negativity. Two words that will bring you abundance in all things. Two words which, when uttered and sincerely felt, will summon all the forces and vibrations in the Universe to move all things for you. The only thing standing between you, happiness, and the life of your dreams is two words THANK YOU!

  

  Rhonda Byrne
  • Power
  • Change
  • Moving

• People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Dog
  • Rain

• How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Happiness
  • Empty
  • Abundance