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Life Quotes
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.Life
The most important thing is to enjoy your life- to be happy- it's all that matters.Life Perspective
Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can becomeLife Wisdom Life lessons
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.Life Choice Thinking
Obscurity and a competence-that is the life that is best worth living.Life Wisdom Writer
Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.Life Time Humans
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.Life
Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?Life
How you are, should never be determined by how somebody else is. Once you allow that, you will remain a slave to somebody all your life because they will decide whether you'll be happy or unhappy.Life Joy Suffering
When the need to be special is gone, that is when you are unique. Significance of life is in its uniquenessLife Success Spirituality
If you are doing your best and enjoy doing your best, what's the problem with life? How many rupees or dollars you have in your pocket won't make any difference.Life Work Money Problems
IMHO the three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order but their importance is in the reverse.Life Health
The more secrets you have, the less happy you're going to be.Life Short Secret
A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.Life Smile World The light in the heart
Top 15 Things Money Can't Buy: Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.Life Love Time Trust
Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.Life Mind Control The light in the heart
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.Life Love Passion
I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.Life Relationship
I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.Life Humor
And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.Life
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.Life
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I'd far rather be happy than right any day.Short
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.Short
Do not allow your happiness to be conditioned by what you have or do not have.Short
It is blessedness for yourself and others if you are happy.Short
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.Short
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.Short
I would always rather be happy than dignified.Short
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.Short Truth
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.Short Money
Happiness depends upon ourselves.Short
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.Short
You must be the best judge of your own happiness.Short
One path to a happy life is to retain a sense of wonder.Short
Happiness Is a Skill You Can DevelopShort
No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happinessShort
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.Short Food
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.Short
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.Short Witty
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I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.Inspirational Memory Health
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.Inspirational Positive Attitude
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.Inspirational Thought
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, believe, Do and mostly Live.Inspirational
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.Inspirational Love Philosophy
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.Inspirational Book Reading
Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.Inspirational
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.Inspirational Perspective
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.Inspirational
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.Inspirational
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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.Love Kindness
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.Love
Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.Love Short Knowing
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.Love Success Work
Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.Love
When one marriage partner tries to control the other, it shows a lack of real love. But when they express their love in continual thoughtfulness for the true happiness of the other, it becomes divine loveLove Marriage Control
Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed... normal.Love Sadness
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.Love
People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!Love Short People
Love gives joy. We love love because it gives us such intoxicating happinessLove Short Joy
Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige, and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man.Love Success Wisdom Power
We're all golden sunflowers inside.Love Short
Unless human love is spiritualized, it will be a canker in your soul. Unless you are spiritually-minded and your mate is the same, you can never be completely happy.Love Relationship Soul Spirituality
She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.Love
I think we ought to live happily ever after.Love
Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.Love Hurt
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I think happiness is what makes you pretty... Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.Beauty
It's not the shape of the nose or chin, or the color of your skin that makes you beautiful. A joyful face is always a beautiful faceBeauty Joy
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.Beauty Heart Inspirational Art
Whatever the shape of eyes or nose - a joyful face is always a beautiful face. Become Joy - become Beautiful.Beauty Wisdom Joy
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.Beauty Short
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Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.Future
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.Anger Short
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.Action Thought
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.Goal Life Short
Whoever is happy will make others happy.Heart Short
Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.Anger Short
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.Desire Life Literature
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.Simile
If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.Wisdom
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.Acceptance
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.Wisdom Light
If you are happy by your own nature, now relationships will become a means for you to express your happiness not to seek happiness.Relationship
Relationships have become a mutual exploitative process. You try to milk happiness out of somebody, somebody tries to milk something else out of you. If you take the responsibility of making yourself the way you want yourself to be.. you would be naturally joyful.Relationship Responsibility
Being fit for life means- hardness in the body, sharpness in your mind & softness in your heart.Heart Life Mind Body
By arranging material things around you, only comfort and convenience will happen, wellbeing will never happenComfort
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from youPositive Attitude Mind
The initial state of happiness accompanying sensuality is always followed by unhappiness, owing to the impairment of physical vitality, mental self-control, and spiritual peacePeace Spirituality
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.Heart Soul Inclusiveness
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.Intelligence
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?Humor
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.Humor Laughter
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.Freedom Choice
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Existence
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.Laughter Joy People
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.Truth Sadness
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.Desire Perspective
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.Kindness
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.Hope Love Success Action
We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.Friendship Life Relationship
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.Man
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.Funny People
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.Anger Freedom
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.Humor
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.People
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.Death Life Short Wisdom
Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.Peace People
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.Soul
Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.Faith Hope Inspirational
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.Philosophy Suffering
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.Thought
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family... in another city.Family Funny
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.Compassion
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.Thought
If you're happy in a dream, does that count?Dreams
Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys and dividing our griefFriendship Joy
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Everybody in the world is seeking happiness- and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.Seeking Thought Control
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.Compassion Understanding
Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.Goal Time Wisdom Advice
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.Wisdom
Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.Truth Wisdom Expectation
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.Desire Seeking Secret
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.Freedom Goal Life Philosophy
If you are forming relationships to seek happiness and trying to squeeze happiness out of somebody and that person is trying to squeeze happiness out of you, now this is going to be a painful relationship after some timeRelationship Pain
There are only two important things: 1. How Joyful are you? 2. How much joy do you give to people around you?Joy
You are feeling well when you are really happy, even if you are diagnosed as medically ill. Fundamentally well being means a certain level of joyfulness, certain exuberance of lifeFeeling Joy
I don't see any criminals. All I see is, every human being is in pursuit of his happiness. The man whom you call as a criminal is also in pursuit of his happiness. Only thing is he is pursuing his happiness far more vigorously than youFunny
if you mortgage your pleasantness to something outside of you, you being pleasant or unpleasant is only by chance.Philosophy Success Wisdom
A spiritual person and a materialistic person are both seeking the same infinite. One is seeking it consciously, the other one unconsciously.Seeking Spirituality Consciousness
If your work is an expression of your joyfulness, whether recognition or no recognition, what does it matter?Positive Attitude Work Joy
If you live joyfully until the last moment, you don't have to worry about death - that will also be a joyful process.Death Joy
Knowing how little you matter is very important for your mental health and your happiness
The only thing that will make you happy is choosing to be happy.
If you can buy happiness, buy it.
You're never going to be happy if you keep lying to yourself.
The nature of all material things is impermanent, and that it is thus foolishness to expect permanent happiness by clinging to material forms and objects.
You do not have to leave earth's shores to put on wings; you must learn rather to be happy here and now, under all conditionsEarth
Everything in the outer world that had promised great happiness has deceived me, but one thing has never deceived me — my inner peaceWorld
Why become helplessly involved in an endless panorama of events in order to discover that nothing in this world can ever make you happy?Spirituality World
For your own happiness, you must strive to live free of worldly desires. If there is anything you can't do without, you still have a terrible lesson to learn.Desire Life
Only when one pleasure after another fails him does man finally begin to wonder if, after all, happiness is possible through the senses. This thought has a liberating effectFailure Wisdom Liberation Pleasure
Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers, it will be easier for you to meditate and think of GodGod Nature Meditation
If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.God Short
Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.Attitude
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.Wisdom Kindness Choice Attitude
Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.Anger Life
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.Future The light in the heart
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren't grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.Goal The light in the heart
I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.Pain Choice
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.Laughter
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.Pain Past
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.Hope
I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.Thought
I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.Faith Truth Perspective Reality
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Family Short
Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?Moment Pleasure
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.Life
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.Life Reality
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.Future
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.Advice
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.Life Sadness Secret Man
Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.Life Love
Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you're friends is easy. Being friends is not.Friendship Love Feeling
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.Life
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.Perseverance
I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity.Religion Comfort
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong."Children Mind
I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be, and feel alone.Loneliness Philosophy
The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.Life Problems People
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.Thinking Attitude
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...Hope Inspirational Smile
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.Nature Short
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,Compassion
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.Peace
Happiness is a risk. If you're not a little scared, then you're not doing it right.Fear
Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.Humanity
A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.Peace Joy Moment
Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.Positive Attitude Pleasure
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.Life Love
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow...Life People
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
Name one hero who was happy.
The person born with a talent, they are meant to use will, find their greatest happiness in using it.Writing
Life is like topography... There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine, and valleys of frustration and failure.Failure Life Success
Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.Humor
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
Spiritual progress: If by the day you are becoming a more joyful human being, (if your long face is becoming wider) that means you are progressingHumor Spirituality
If you have become a joy by yourself and you are forming relationships because you want to express your happiness, nobody is going to complain about you because you are in the process of expressing your joy not seeking joy from the other person.Relationship Joy
External pleasantness needs cooperation from many people. It's not just yours. There are other stakeholders who may want to make it nasty for you. It needs many people's cooperation but inner pleasantness is one hundred percent yours. But why have you not strived for it?Life
There is nobody who has not been happy, Everybody has been happy, the problem is that they have not been able to maintain itLife Success Wisdom
In terms of Life, Happiness means that your life energies are happening in a more exuberant way than it normally happens. Depression means your life energy has become low & staid.Life
When you were 5-6 years of age you were bursting with it, isn't it? Somebody had to make you unhappy at that time, now somebody has to make you happy
Why we are continuously talking about joy, blissfulness, love, is not because it's a goal by itself, these are not goals by itself -only when you are pleasant by your own nature, you stop being in pursuit of happiness. You are fine by yourself, you don't have to go anywhere to feel pleasant. You don't have to do anything to feel pleasantGoal Love Nature Joy
If with every single act that you do, you create what you care for, then whatever you get or do not get, your life is beautiful.Life Wisdom Action
What most people are calling marriage right now is just a whole bundle of expectations about how the other person should make heaven for you. If you're trying to extract happiness out of somebody, you will be disappointed.Marriage Relationship Expectation People
How people are is their choice. How I am is my choice. No matter what they do, no one can make me angry, happy or unhappy. These privileges I have kept to myselfChoice Self control People
The quality of your life does not depend on your clothes, car, or home, but on how peaceful and joyful you areLife Peace Success Joy
Stability is more important than ecstasy. If ecstasy comes before stability, you are heading for a crash
If you're loving and ecstatic, you don't need a damn heavenShort
If you really want to have absolutely fantastic relationships.. you need to establish yourself as a joyful human beingRelationship Joy
Every human being without exception is capable of living blissfully within himselfShort
Relationships are not about extracting happiness but about giving joy to the other. Short journeys can be made alone, long journeys need reliable and resilient Relationships.Marriage Relationship Joy
Every single action that we perform on this planet springs from an aspiration to be happy because that is your original natureAction
The quality of your life is not determined by the clothes you wear, the educational qualifications you carry, the family background you come from or the bank balances you hold. Rather, the quality of your life depends upon how peaceful and joyous you are within yourselfEducation Life Truth Wisdom
If you do not know how to laugh, then you are already long goneShort Laughter
Our pursuit of the comforts is so vigorous that the very life of the planet is being threatened. Yet, it cannot be said that we are any happier than our forefathers. This is because people are trying to create an outwardly perfect life. But the quality of our lives is based upon our interiority.Life Comfort
Peace, Happiness, misery, anxiety, suffering, anger, and hatred have a certain chemical basis within you. There are simple methods with which one can create the right kind of chemistry within oneself. If you are willing to invest just a few minutes a day in your inner wellbeing, being peaceful & happy within yourself becomes natural.Anger Peace Yoga Suffering
When you are in pursuit of happiness, you are in desperate action. When someone is in desperate action, you can't tell him not to do this or that. He will find devious ways to do itAction
When human beings are peaceful and joyful within themselves, they will do just what is needed, nothing more, nothing less.Truth
It doesn't matter who you are right now, how miserable you are right now, how disturbed you are right now. If you pay enough attention to your interiority, being blissful is a possibility for every human being.Possibility
Right now, you believe that something or someone else is the source of your joy, so you are always at their mercy. If you realize and experientially know that you are the source of your joy, wouldn't you be joyous all the time?Wisdom Joy
If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you are, but if you want to be happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful than you are.Funny Success Humor People
Money can't make rich people happy, but it can make poor people happyShort Money
Tell your friends that you're a happy person. Then you'll be forced to conform to it. You'll have a consistency bias. You have to live up to it. Your friends will expect you to be a happy person.Friends Expectation
Happiness is evident more by its absence than by its presence.Philosophy
You can neither give happiness, nor receive it.Short
Balance material and spiritual duties in your life; that will bring you supreme happinessLife Short Spirituality
Meditate deeply and regularly, until the spiritual eye is opened and you can fly through it to the astral kingdom. Remain always in the sphere of happiness born of meditation, no matter what happensMeditation Spirituality
Happiness depends to some extent upon external conditions, but chiefly upon mental attitudes. In order to be happy one should have good health, a well-balanced mind, a prosperous life, the right work, a thankful heart, and above all, knowledge of GodGod Mind Health Attitude
The essential proof of Self-realization—of God's consciousness in you—is to be truly and unconditionally happy. If you are receiving more and more joy in meditation, without cessation, you may know that God is making manifest His presence in you.God Consciousness Self realization
Peace emanates from the soul and is the sacred inner environment in which true happiness unfoldsPeace Soul
Human desires are not perfect, hence their fulfillment does not lead to perfect happiness.Desire
The sense pleasures yield fleeting happiness but shut off the manifestation of the subtle, more pure and lasting enjoymentsPleasure
A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, prana, to every body cell. The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the universal life energy.Smile Spirituality
Don't expect to attain unalloyed peace and happiness from earthly life. This should be your attitude: no matter what your experiences are, enjoy them in an objective way, as you would a movie.Peace Attitude
It is hard to give up the known sense pleasures of the present for unknown pleasures that may arrive in the future. This is the reason why millions of people would rather eat, drink, and try to be merry today than take the trouble to meditate and make an investment for a future of lasting happinessSpirituality Future People Pleasure
He who realizes that happiness is the highest goal, and who seeks happiness in God, follows the path of wisdomGoal God Wisdom
If the whole world were given to you, you would grow tired of it. No power or miracles can compare with the joy that is God. That perennial happiness is what everyone is seeking. God is ever new joy unto eternity. If you have that joy, it will never grow staleGod Joy
Material objects and the satisfaction of material desires are temporal; therefore all happiness deriving from them is temporal.Desire
The happiness that comes by fits and starts is only tantalizing; pleasures that become monotonous are tiresome; joy that comes momentarily and then flits away, sinking you in a state of deepening indifference, by contrast, is torturing.Wisdom Joy Moment Pleasure
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.Short
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.Short
There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.Dreams Thinking
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.Life Love
We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.Relationship
But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.
What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.
If your pleasantness is dependent upon what happens around you, the chances of you being pleasant all the time is remote, in the very nature of things it is not possible.Philosophy Truth
If your life becomes an expression of your joy, not in pursuit of happiness then relationships will be naturally wonderful. You can hold a million relationships and still hold them good.Life Relationship
We are thinking of happiness like it's some kind of a commodity or some kind of an attainment. No. When your life comes to ease, when you come to ease, happiness is a natural consequenceLife
Happiness is essentially a human experience. While making our surroundings pleasant, it's important to make our interiority also pleasantWisdom Experience
Whatever states of pleasantness human beings have known have come from within them.Short
When you are in pursuit of happiness, you are in some way causing suffering to others all the time.Short Suffering
Marriage is not about compatibility, companionship, or extracting happiness. It is an opportunity to achieve a union that will open up a greater possibilityMarriage Possibility
Children are happy because: 1) They're not self-conscious 2) They lack a sense of time pressure 3) They've no goals. The bottom line is they are living from moment to moment, and the mind is not there to interfere in their bliss.Freedom Children
The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill set that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles.Mind
The fundamental delusion - there is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever.
It's a rare creative who dares to be happy.
Material progress doesn't make us happier. If it did, the ancients must have been a miserable bunch.
A happy person isn't someone who's happy all the time. It's someone who effortlessly interprets events in such a way that they don't lose their innate peace.
Money does buy happiness... if you earned it.Short Money
No material or spiritual activities performed with attachment can produce lasting happinessShort Spirituality
When external objects of sense pleasure are destroyed, the happiness they give is destroyed with them. But the ever-new joy of God inherent in the soul is indestructible.God Joy Pleasure
That consciousness of God-peace is never-ending. It is the real state of happiness. Everything else will fail you. Nothing else can make you happy because only the joy of His presence is real.God Peace Consciousness
You must not expect life's experiences to yield lasting peace or happiness. You have to find peace and happiness within yourselfLife Peace Experience Expectation
The saints have found that happiness lies in a constant mental state of unruffled peace during all the experiences of earthly dualitiesPeace
I believe that America is a wonderful country in which to try out brotherhood colonies, wherein mankind can learn that the first principle of life is happiness.
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.Success
right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.Joy
So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!Dreams Heart
Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.Truth
Can a person steal happiness? Or is it just another internal, infernal human trick?Life
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.Smile Laughter
I just want to be wonderful.Short
please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.Life
I wanted all things To seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, Instead of tense. And I made up lies So that they all fit nice, And I made this sad world A par-a-dise.Poetry
When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it.God Knowledge
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.Short
The only way to outwit earthly disappointments over prosperity, fame, and happiness is not to feel sorry when you are denied what you think you want.
Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that “something else” he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending. For those individual souls who have sought and found God, the search is over: He is that Something Else.God Hope Soul
And I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.Short
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others. 
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. 
I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves. 
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. 
In all your seeking among different things, directly or indirectly, you are in reality seeking happiness through the fulfillment of your desires 
We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows 
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. 
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now. 
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. 
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. 
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. 
The most important thing is to enjoy your life- to be happy- it's all that matters. 
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. 
Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become 
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking. 
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations. 
Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition. 
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. 
Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? 
How you are, should never be determined by how somebody else is. Once you allow that, you will remain a slave to somebody all your life because they will decide whether you'll be happy or unhappy. 
When the need to be special is gone, that is when you are unique. Significance of life is in its uniqueness 
If you are doing your best and enjoy doing your best, what's the problem with life? How many rupees or dollars you have in your pocket won't make any difference. 
IMHO the three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order but their importance is in the reverse. 
A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life. 
Top 15 Things Money Can't Buy: Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity. 
Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life. 
Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try. 
The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last. 
I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye. 
And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live. 
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy. 
I'd far rather be happy than right any day. 
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves. 
The biggest mistake that people make is they try to be happier than someone else. 
Our idea of happiness is being one up on somebody else. 
A Joyful Face is always a Beautiful Face 
Do not allow your happiness to be conditioned by what you have or do not have. 
It is blessedness for yourself and others if you are happy. 
Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people's hands. 
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. 
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. 
I would always rather be happy than dignified. 
Happiness depends upon ourselves. 
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. 
You must be the best judge of your own happiness. 
One path to a happy life is to retain a sense of wonder. 
Happiness Is a Skill You Can Develop 
No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness 
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. 
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. 
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. 
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations. 
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me. 
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. 
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. 
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. 
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, believe, Do and mostly Live. 
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here. 
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. 
Happiness is only real when shared 
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time. 
Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. 
You must learn to be happy here and now, under all conditions. 
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. 
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. 
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. 
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. 
The greatest fulfillment in life is to do something which is much larger than yourself. 
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. 
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. 
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. 
I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest. 
Love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. 
When one marriage partner tries to control the other, it shows a lack of real love. But when they express their love in continual thoughtfulness for the true happiness of the other, it becomes divine love 
Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed... normal. 
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. 
Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige, and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man. 
Unless human love is spiritualized, it will be a canker in your soul. Unless you are spiritually-minded and your mate is the same, you can never be completely happy. 
She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one. 
I think we ought to live happily ever after. 
Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him. 
I think happiness is what makes you pretty... Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness. 
It's not the shape of the nose or chin, or the color of your skin that makes you beautiful. A joyful face is always a beautiful face 
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. 
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. 
Whatever the shape of eyes or nose - a joyful face is always a beautiful face. Become Joy - become Beautiful. 
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. 
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.
We don't even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once. By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
If you are happy by your own nature, now relationships will become a means for you to express your happiness not to seek happiness.
Relationships have become a mutual exploitative process. You try to milk happiness out of somebody, somebody tries to milk something else out of you. If you take the responsibility of making yourself the way you want yourself to be.. you would be naturally joyful.
Being fit for life means- hardness in the body, sharpness in your mind & softness in your heart.
By arranging material things around you, only comfort and convenience will happen, wellbeing will never happen
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you
The initial state of happiness accompanying sensuality is always followed by unhappiness, owing to the impairment of physical vitality, mental self-control, and spiritual peace
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
You are in charge of your own happiness; you don't need to wait for other people's permission to be happy.
Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.
We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.
If you're happy in a dream, does that count?
Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys and dividing our grief
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Everybody in the world is seeking happiness- and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.
Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.
Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
If you are forming relationships to seek happiness and trying to squeeze happiness out of somebody and that person is trying to squeeze happiness out of you, now this is going to be a painful relationship after some time
There are only two important things: 1. How Joyful are you? 2. How much joy do you give to people around you?
You are feeling well when you are really happy, even if you are diagnosed as medically ill. Fundamentally well being means a certain level of joyfulness, certain exuberance of life
I don't see any criminals. All I see is, every human being is in pursuit of his happiness. The man whom you call as a criminal is also in pursuit of his happiness. Only thing is he is pursuing his happiness far more vigorously than you
if you mortgage your pleasantness to something outside of you, you being pleasant or unpleasant is only by chance.
I would know you are happy if your bones did Smile and I hear the rattle.
A spiritual person and a materialistic person are both seeking the same infinite. One is seeking it consciously, the other one unconsciously.
If your work is an expression of your joyfulness, whether recognition or no recognition, what does it matter?
Human folly is that people are always trying to extract joy from the outside.
If you live joyfully until the last moment, you don't have to worry about death - that will also be a joyful process.
You don't have to please anybody in this world, if you are truly joyful everybody is pleased by you
Knowing how little you matter is very important for your mental health and your happiness
The only thing that will make you happy is choosing to be happy.
If you can buy happiness, buy it.
You're never going to be happy if you keep lying to yourself.
To the unmeditative, there is no tranquility. To the peaceless, how comes happiness?
The nature of all material things is impermanent, and that it is thus foolishness to expect permanent happiness by clinging to material forms and objects.
You do not have to leave earth's shores to put on wings; you must learn rather to be happy here and now, under all conditions
Everything in the outer world that had promised great happiness has deceived me, but one thing has never deceived me — my inner peace
Why become helplessly involved in an endless panorama of events in order to discover that nothing in this world can ever make you happy?
For your own happiness, you must strive to live free of worldly desires. If there is anything you can't do without, you still have a terrible lesson to learn.
Only when one pleasure after another fails him does man finally begin to wonder if, after all, happiness is possible through the senses. This thought has a liberating effect
Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers, it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God
Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.
Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren't grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.
I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you're friends is easy. Being friends is not.
It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong."
I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be, and feel alone.
The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...
The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
Happiness is a risk. If you're not a little scared, then you're not doing it right.
Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
Name one hero who was happy.
The person born with a talent, they are meant to use will, find their greatest happiness in using it.
Life is like topography... There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine, and valleys of frustration and failure.
Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
Spiritual progress: If by the day you are becoming a more joyful human being, (if your long face is becoming wider) that means you are progressing
If you have become a joy by yourself and you are forming relationships because you want to express your happiness, nobody is going to complain about you because you are in the process of expressing your joy not seeking joy from the other person.
External pleasantness needs cooperation from many people. It's not just yours. There are other stakeholders who may want to make it nasty for you. It needs many people's cooperation but inner pleasantness is one hundred percent yours. But why have you not strived for it?
There is nobody who has not been happy, Everybody has been happy, the problem is that they have not been able to maintain it
In terms of Life, Happiness means that your life energies are happening in a more exuberant way than it normally happens. Depression means your life energy has become low & staid.
When you were 5-6 years of age you were bursting with it, isn't it? Somebody had to make you unhappy at that time, now somebody has to make you happy
Why we are continuously talking about joy, blissfulness, love, is not because it's a goal by itself, these are not goals by itself -only when you are pleasant by your own nature, you stop being in pursuit of happiness. You are fine by yourself, you don't have to go anywhere to feel pleasant. You don't have to do anything to feel pleasant
If with every single act that you do, you create what you care for, then whatever you get or do not get, your life is beautiful.
What most people are calling marriage right now is just a whole bundle of expectations about how the other person should make heaven for you. If you're trying to extract happiness out of somebody, you will be disappointed.
How people are is their choice. How I am is my choice. No matter what they do, no one can make me angry, happy or unhappy. These privileges I have kept to myself
The quality of your life does not depend on your clothes, car, or home, but on how peaceful and joyful you are
Stability is more important than ecstasy. If ecstasy comes before stability, you are heading for a crash
If you're loving and ecstatic, you don't need a damn heaven
If you really want to have absolutely fantastic relationships.. you need to establish yourself as a joyful human being
Every human being without exception is capable of living blissfully within himself
Relationships are not about extracting happiness but about giving joy to the other. Short journeys can be made alone, long journeys need reliable and resilient Relationships.
Every single action that we perform on this planet springs from an aspiration to be happy because that is your original nature
The quality of your life is not determined by the clothes you wear, the educational qualifications you carry, the family background you come from or the bank balances you hold. Rather, the quality of your life depends upon how peaceful and joyous you are within yourself
Our pursuit of the comforts is so vigorous that the very life of the planet is being threatened. Yet, it cannot be said that we are any happier than our forefathers. This is because people are trying to create an outwardly perfect life. But the quality of our lives is based upon our interiority.
Peace, Happiness, misery, anxiety, suffering, anger, and hatred have a certain chemical basis within you. There are simple methods with which one can create the right kind of chemistry within oneself. If you are willing to invest just a few minutes a day in your inner wellbeing, being peaceful & happy within yourself becomes natural.
When you are in pursuit of happiness, you are in desperate action. When someone is in desperate action, you can't tell him not to do this or that. He will find devious ways to do it
When human beings are peaceful and joyful within themselves, they will do just what is needed, nothing more, nothing less.
Everything that you do in your life is in pursuit of happiness.
It doesn't matter who you are right now, how miserable you are right now, how disturbed you are right now. If you pay enough attention to your interiority, being blissful is a possibility for every human being.
Right now, you believe that something or someone else is the source of your joy, so you are always at their mercy. If you realize and experientially know that you are the source of your joy, wouldn't you be joyous all the time?
If you want to be successful, surround yourself with people who are more successful than you are, but if you want to be happy, surround yourself with people who are less successful than you are.
Tell your friends that you're a happy person. Then you'll be forced to conform to it. You'll have a consistency bias. You have to live up to it. Your friends will expect you to be a happy person.
Happiness is evident more by its absence than by its presence.
You can neither give happiness, nor receive it.
Balance material and spiritual duties in your life; that will bring you supreme happiness
Meditate deeply and regularly, until the spiritual eye is opened and you can fly through it to the astral kingdom. Remain always in the sphere of happiness born of meditation, no matter what happens
Happiness depends to some extent upon external conditions, but chiefly upon mental attitudes. In order to be happy one should have good health, a well-balanced mind, a prosperous life, the right work, a thankful heart, and above all, knowledge of God
The essential proof of Self-realization—of God's consciousness in you—is to be truly and unconditionally happy. If you are receiving more and more joy in meditation, without cessation, you may know that God is making manifest His presence in you.
Peace emanates from the soul and is the sacred inner environment in which true happiness unfolds
Human desires are not perfect, hence their fulfillment does not lead to perfect happiness.
The sense pleasures yield fleeting happiness but shut off the manifestation of the subtle, more pure and lasting enjoyments
A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, prana, to every body cell. The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the universal life energy.
Don't expect to attain unalloyed peace and happiness from earthly life. This should be your attitude: no matter what your experiences are, enjoy them in an objective way, as you would a movie.
It is hard to give up the known sense pleasures of the present for unknown pleasures that may arrive in the future. This is the reason why millions of people would rather eat, drink, and try to be merry today than take the trouble to meditate and make an investment for a future of lasting happiness
He who realizes that happiness is the highest goal, and who seeks happiness in God, follows the path of wisdom
If the whole world were given to you, you would grow tired of it. No power or miracles can compare with the joy that is God. That perennial happiness is what everyone is seeking. God is ever new joy unto eternity. If you have that joy, it will never grow stale
Material objects and the satisfaction of material desires are temporal; therefore all happiness deriving from them is temporal.
The happiness that comes by fits and starts is only tantalizing; pleasures that become monotonous are tiresome; joy that comes momentarily and then flits away, sinking you in a state of deepening indifference, by contrast, is torturing.
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.
A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.
We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.
But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.
What you base your happiness around? Material, women, and large paper? That means you inferior, not major.
Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
If your pleasantness is dependent upon what happens around you, the chances of you being pleasant all the time is remote, in the very nature of things it is not possible.
If your life becomes an expression of your joy, not in pursuit of happiness then relationships will be naturally wonderful. You can hold a million relationships and still hold them good.
We are thinking of happiness like it's some kind of a commodity or some kind of an attainment. No. When your life comes to ease, when you come to ease, happiness is a natural consequence
Happiness is essentially a human experience. While making our surroundings pleasant, it's important to make our interiority also pleasant
Whatever states of pleasantness human beings have known have come from within them.
When you are in pursuit of happiness, you are in some way causing suffering to others all the time.
Marriage is not about compatibility, companionship, or extracting happiness. It is an opportunity to achieve a union that will open up a greater possibility
Children are happy because: 1) They're not self-conscious 2) They lack a sense of time pressure 3) They've no goals. The bottom line is they are living from moment to moment, and the mind is not there to interfere in their bliss.
The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill set that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles.
The fundamental delusion - there is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever.
It's a rare creative who dares to be happy.
Material progress doesn't make us happier. If it did, the ancients must have been a miserable bunch.
A happy person isn't someone who's happy all the time. It's someone who effortlessly interprets events in such a way that they don't lose their innate peace.
No material or spiritual activities performed with attachment can produce lasting happiness
When external objects of sense pleasure are destroyed, the happiness they give is destroyed with them. But the ever-new joy of God inherent in the soul is indestructible.
That consciousness of God-peace is never-ending. It is the real state of happiness. Everything else will fail you. Nothing else can make you happy because only the joy of His presence is real.
You must not expect life's experiences to yield lasting peace or happiness. You have to find peace and happiness within yourself
The saints have found that happiness lies in a constant mental state of unruffled peace during all the experiences of earthly dualities
I believe that America is a wonderful country in which to try out brotherhood colonies, wherein mankind can learn that the first principle of life is happiness.
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.
So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
Can a person steal happiness? Or is it just another internal, infernal human trick?
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
I just want to be wonderful.
please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.
I wanted all things To seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, Instead of tense. And I made up lies So that they all fit nice, And I made this sad world A par-a-dise.
When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it.
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
The only way to outwit earthly disappointments over prosperity, fame, and happiness is not to feel sorry when you are denied what you think you want.
Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that “something else” he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending. For those individual souls who have sought and found God, the search is over: He is that Something Else.
And I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.