Happiness Quotes
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The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.
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Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.
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You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.
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The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.
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Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.
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People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
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Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.
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My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
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There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
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One of the outstanding tragedies of this age of struggle and money-madness is the fact that so few people are engaged in the effort which they like best. Everyone should find his or her particular niche in the world's work, where both material prosperity and happiness in abundance may be found.
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All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.
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Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself.
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Happiness is the final and perfect fruit of obedience to the laws of life.
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If two people want to get married, it’s their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness.
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The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
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Rigging is like Zen meditation. You must bend over the boat until your back is breaking, until your brain is filled with numbers and fractions of numbers, until you can accurately measure an oarlock's pitch without bothering to use the pitch meter. Only then will you see the way of eternal rigging happiness.
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Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.
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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.
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No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.
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Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.
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Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
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We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
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Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.
