Happiness Quotes - Page 157

Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks

Jim Fergus

Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.

George Alexiou

We left behind the other kids; their path-working, drinking, and being grown up- and rejected all that made them grumpy, uncreative and lifeless. We dumpstered, squatted, and shoplifted our lives back. Everything fell into place when we decided our lives were meant to be lived. Life serves the risk taker...

CrimethInc.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Once he said to her: 'You are like me; you are different from other people. You are Kamala and no one else, and within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself, just as I can. Few people have that capacity and yet everyone could have it.

Hermann Hesse

Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!

Shannon L. Alder

Why do I want to run from happiness?

Mary Balogh

A person cannot direct his emotional life in the way he bids his motor system to reach for a cup. He cannot will himself to want the right thing or to love the right person or to be happy after a disappointment, or even to be happy in happy times. People lack this capacity not through a deficiency of discipline but because the jurisdiction of will is limited to the latest brain and to those functions within its purview. Emotional life can be influenced, but it cannot be commanded.

Thomas Lewis

His gut was stitched up good and tight, but that didn’t prevent it from flopping. He wiped his damp palms on the legs of his jeans and stood up shakily, leaning heavily on his cane.He called himself a masochist for putting himself through this torture day after day.He braced himself for the disappointment of having to go home alone.He braced himself for happiness like he’d never known in his entire life.He watched the door they would come through.

Sandra Brown

Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather.

Santosh Kalwar

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

Helen Keller

How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don't let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses

Germany Kent

The happiness of a family is such a complex matter. Like a table laid out with a tea service, it looks so ordinary until it's threatened. Then it becomes infinitely precious.

Lynda Williams

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

G.K. Chesterton

Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.

Heather O'Neill

When we give up the chase, we give up our wishing.

Stephen Richards

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

Justina Chen

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Marcus Aurelius

So what's the point, then, if we can't be happy? Why are we doing any of this?""Oh, there's definitely happiness," Jack said, turning his back on the ocean and looking at her. "But it's just about moments, not ever-afters." He grinned. "Like when you're right in the middle of the ocean with your friends, with no one trying to kill you in any kind of horrifying way. You have to appreciate these moments when they happen, 'cause obviously we don't get many of them.

James Riley

Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

Josef Pieper

Happiness isn’t the reward we retrieve after a long struggle. It arrives daily, in those clear moments when our hearts are tender, pricked by the embrace of a loved one, the beauty of a single flower, the majesty of the world in which we are central. Look over your shoulder at how far you’ve come and all the good things you’ve experienced and that is when you will see the smiling face of happiness.

Toni Sorenson

There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.

Giacomo Casanova

It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love.

Steve Maraboli

I know money isn't everything. but it certainly is something.

Thisuri Wanniarachchi

Sometimes I think if we didn’t have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we’d all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we’d have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy.

Daniel Clausen

I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less easily moved, more resolute and steadfast. I am no longer in pursuit of happiness. As I stand here at my front door, key in hand, I think it is just possible that happiness, at least for now, today, this hour, may be in pursuit of me.

Anne Giardini

If you love a person, you should show it in adundance, not reserve it for special occasions like fine china.

Bryan Cohen

The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.

Orhan Pamuk

I wished upon a star and the heavens sent me you

Sonya Watson

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.

Fulton J. Sheen

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Theodore Roosevelt

I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, more so than I do in the reality that surrounds me.

Kendal Rob

Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.

Petar Dunov

The good news is that I believe every woman who wants to can find a great partner. You're just going to need to get rid of the idea that marriage will make you happy. It won't. Once the initial high wears off, you'll just be you, except with twice as much laundry. Because ultimately, marriage is not about getting something -- it's about giving it. Strangely, men understand this more than we do. Probably because for them marriage involves sacrificing their most treasured possession -- a free-agent penis -- and for us, it's the culmination of a princess fantasy so universal, it built Disneyland.

Tracy McMillan

[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—What I’d seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hold?Deadlines, projects, people to meetWhat about our own two feet.Sullen faces like slates of grey...What I’d see most anyday.

Jess C. Scott

Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.

Dan Buettner

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

Audrey Niffenegger

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Jane Austen

When life gives you pain, accept it. When life gives you happiness, reject it.

Santosh Kalwar

He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you happy; but you will make him everything.

Jane Austen

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Leslie Caron

Happiness is something we reap from the seeds we sow. Plant misery seeds and that us what you reap.

Stephen Richards

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

Daniel Kahneman

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

Michael Cunningham

Don't wait for other people to be loving, giving, compassionate, grateful, forgiving, generous, or friendly... lead the way!

Steve Maraboli

Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.

Steve Maraboli

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

Mark Nepo

They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple.

Dolly Parton

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

Victor Hugo

Dream your dream; and realize that you are more than just the dreamer, you are the point of origin for its reality.

Steve Maraboli

Happiness comes in many forms — in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else’s dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It’s okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be.

Lucas Scott

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

Jane Austen

You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.

Richelle E. Goodrich

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.

Byron Katie

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.

Horace Walpole

This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.

Brad Pitt

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

Nicholas Sparks

I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.

Megan Whalen Turner

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