Happiness Quotes - Page 15

The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness.

The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

The secret to happiness is to never make it dependent on that which can be taken away

The secret to happiness is a good sense of humor with adult content.

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.

Marcus Buckingham

To see the true beauty of a person, see through the mirror of your love.

Debasish Mridha

None of us are perfect, so a true friend will never look for defects in you as a person, it won't even cross their mind. Your happiness will be their main concern.

Ron Baratono

It's okay to be happy.

Megan Duke

I just want to always be here. In this place. Right here, right now.

Xingyue Sarah He

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

Leo Tolstoy

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.

P.D. James

My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is nothappiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.

Andrew Weil

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

George Sand

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?

Alan Moore

We found a smooth inviting boulder under a vast banyan tree, and sat in companionable silence. There unexpectedly, on that rock, I saw the secret of contentment. True happiness is only ever possible if you have been unhappy. And there, at that moment, I couldn’t remember the last time I had felt so peaceful. It wouldn’t have been possible for me to take in any more happiness. Moti turned to me and smiled as if she knew. I realised then that this moment and this wonderful feeling would sustain me for a long, long time.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain respect for the follies of mankind: for there are so many fools whom the opinion of the world entitles to regard, whom accident has placed in heights of which they are unworthy, that he who cannot restrain his contempt or indignation at the sight will be too often quarrelling with the disposal of things to relish that share which is allotted to himself.

Henry MacKenzie

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

Irene Hunt

Sage.” He laughed. “I’m into anything, so long as you’re with me.

Richelle Mead

Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Jane Austen

Don’t Seek Happiness - Happiness is like an orgasm: if you think about it too much, it goes away. Keep busy and aim to make someone else happy, and you might find you get some as a side effect. We didn’t evolve to be constantly content. Contented Australopithecus Afarensis got eaten before passing on their genes.

Tim Minchin

...are you happy?""I am content.""What is the difference?""Between happiness and contentment? Ah, there you have me. It is not easy to put into words. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive--coming perhaps once in a life-time--and approaching ecstasy.""Not a continuous thing, like contentment?""No, not a continuous thing. But there are, after all, degrees of happiness.

Daphne du Maurier

Happiness is never found in materialistic things; it exists in things that cannot be physically possessed. Therefore, happiness is priceless. It can never be purchased. Love is happiness.

Ellen J. Barrier

If you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that.

Joshua Becker

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Doug Larson

Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are.

E.L.Doctorow

Happiness is achieving your goals. Contentment is not having any.

Chloe Thurlow

The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on.

Jo Nesbø

We speak of searching for happiness, of finding contentment, as if these were locations on an atlas, actual places that we could visit if only we had the proper map and the right navigational skills.

Melody Warnick

No one’s life ever goes as they planned. That truth alone should bring a sense of relief to everyone.

Andrena Sawyer

Life is contentment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

All I ever think about day and night is-how can I make a difference in the lives of others, how can I provide an ounce of contentment and happiness?

Charmaine J.Forde

Never run back to whatever broke you.

Anonymous

Imagine for a moment that life has given you everything you dream about, but you won’t be happy, because happiness comes when you pursue your dreams, otherwise it is not your dream, but charity.

M.F. Moonzajer

Every moment is important, like the moment that takes away your life.

Debasish Mridha

My lifetime is my existence in a sacred moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A moment is not complete until you realise it is fleeting...

Stuti Dhyani

Not every happy person is rich, and, Not every rich person is happy.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.

Debasish Mridha

Being rich and coming from a distinguished family background doesn't guarantee happiness, Abby. In fact, it might make happiness harder to find because you have to live up to akk that expectation.

V.C. Andrews

A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.

Debasish Mridha

This pervasive craving to be recognized as special amounted to an abdication of power, an outsourcing of your core responsibilities. I spurned the fawning of strangers, but I did feel special to myself. I had found that "feeling special" was a private experience, and no one else's projected fascination could substitute for quiet absorption in your own life.

Lionel Shriver

Happiness comes in many forms. Whether through a passion for something or someone, it makes no difference. The results are the same: you live.

Megan Duke

One's greatest happiness is also his greatest weakness.

Joe Mari Fadrigalan

Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are the hardest to cope with in silence. Once asked they do not evaporate and leave the mind to its serener musings. Once asked they gain dimension and texture, trip you on the stairs, wake you at night-time. A black hole sucks up its surroundings and even light never escapes. Better then to ask no questions? Better then to be a contented pig than an unhappy Socrates? Since factory farming is tougher on pigs than it is on philosophers I'll take a chance.

Jeanette Winterson

Ideally, the pursuit of truth is said to be at the heart of the intellectual's business, but this credits his business too much and not quite enough. As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas consummation often turns out to be elusive. Truth captured loses its glamour; truths long known and widely believed have a way of turning false with time; easy truths are bore and too many of them become half truths. Whatever the intellectual is too certain of, if he is healthily playful, he begins to find unsatisfactory. The meaning of his intellectual life lies not in the possession of truth but in the quest for new uncertainties. Harold Rosenberg summed up this side of the life of the mind supremely well when he said that the intellectual is one who turns answers into questions.

Richard Hofstadter

Enjoy life, even in the most chaotic, hectic moments. Take time to breathe. Take time to consider what is important versus what is rubbish. Those are the times where slowing down is healthiest. Those are the times where it really counts. And, if you come across an impossible situation, crying will not help. Open your mouth, but instead of sobs and wails, give out a little chuckle. It’ll make all the difference in your attitude and therefore, in your situation.

Leigh Hershkovich

The world looks different through a smiling face and a crying face, you know? That is, if you have the power to smile through difficult times, then you have nothing to fear. Even hell becomes heaven for you.

Hideaki Sorachi

I had grown used to getting a pat on the back and being told after a good result: 'Well done, David - you should be happy, you're the first clean rider.

David Millar

Stop caring and you will be happy forever.

Pratik Akkawar

Don’t care about day to day things, don’t care about the mundane, but care about what matters.

Debasish Mridha

While filling color to someone's life to whom you really love & care, make sure to fill little color of joy & happiness which should not hurt the beauty of their life. Don't prove that you are an artist just express your art, that's the love and life is...

Navnath Godse

There are a good many people of the same kind as Harry. Many artists are of his kind. These persons all have two souls, two beings within them. Thee is God and the devil in them; the mother's blood and the father's; the capacity for happiness and the capacity for suffering; and in just such a state of enmity and entanglement towards and within each other as were the wolf and man in Harry. And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and indescribable beauty, the spray of their moment's happiness is flung so high and so dazzlingly over the wide sea of suffering, that the light of it, spreading its radiance, touches others too with its enchantment. Thus, like a precious, fleeting foam over the sea of suffering arise all those works of art, in which a single individual lifts himself for an hour so high above his personal destiny that his happiness shines like a star and appears to all who see it as something eternal and as a happiness of their own.

Hermann Hesse

Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success.

Debasish Mridha

Just being out of the house with Daddy like this at Fisher's lights me up enough for somebody to read by me.

Mary Karr

She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words "brain" and "death" in the search box.The suggestions were endless. Shirley scrolled through the possibilities, her mild eyes rolling up and down, wondering to which of these deadly conditions, some of them unpronounceable, she owed her present happiness.

J.K. Rowling

You have that look on your face,” she whispered mockingly, “that Beast-just-gave-Beauty-a-whole-frickin’-library look and now she’s going to spin around like she can read them all at once through osmosis.

Victoria Kahler

It is because I know all that science can bring to the world that I shall continue my efforts to ensure that it contributes to the happiness of all men, whether they be white, black, or yellow, and not to their annihilation in the name of some divine mission or other.

Frédéric Joliot-Curie

In all human cultures, the social world has two clear dimensions: a horizontal dimension of closeness or liking, and a vertical one of hierarchy or status. . . . Now imagine yourself happily moving around your two-dimensional social world, a flat land where the X axis is closeness and the Y axis is hierarchy. Then one day, you see a person do something extraordinary, or you have an overwhelming experience of natural beauty , and you feel lifted “up.” But it is not the “up” of hierarchy, it’s some other kind of elevation. This chapter is about that vertical movement. My claim is that the human mind perceives a third dimension, a specifically moral dimension that I will call “divinity.

Jonathan Haidt

Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?

Anonymous Bushman

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