Happiness Quotes
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The world is crammed with delightful things. I think young people make such a mistake about that - not letting themselves be happy. I sometimes think that happiness is the only thing that counts.
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Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.
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“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.”
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Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.
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Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all-do it for peace. So let us radiate peace...and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power.
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It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
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Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
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Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
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Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
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I believe happiness is a choice. Some days it is a very difficult choice.
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What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
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Every morning when we wake up we've been given a wonderful gift-another day of life-so let's make the most of it. No one can do it for us. . . . Genuine happiness can only be realized once we commit to making it a personal priority in our lives. This may be a new behavior for some of us and a bit intimidating. Be gentle with yourself. It will all unfold. Like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.
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You can't describe love, Kathie, and you can't define it. Only it goes with you all your life. I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty...and maybe after that sorrow. You wouldn't think that sorrow could be a light would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes...I think that is what love is to a woman...a lantern in her hand.
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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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Know your own happiness.
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Your level of gratitude determines your level of happiness, as well as your potential for success. It's difficult to be happy without gratitude.
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True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.
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Showing gratitude for the good things you have is the most powerful happiness boosting activity there is.
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I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy, that's when happiness happens.
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It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.
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Maximizers, according to a series of studies by Schwartz, are lower than satisficers in happiness, optimism, self-esteem, and life satisfaction, and higher in depression and regret!
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So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal and figurative, around ourselves. We move from a teeming college dorm to an apartment to a house, and if we're really wealthy, to an estate. We think we're moving up, but really we're walling off ourselves.
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Everyone is the architect of their own happiness.
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A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
