Happiness Quotes
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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The door to happiness opens outward.
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The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
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Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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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 is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.
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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
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We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
