Happiness Quotes - Page 170

It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair. The second time you have a root beer float, for instance, your happiness at sipping the delicious concoction may not be quite as enormous as when you first had a root beer float, and the twelfth time your happiness may be still less enormous, until root beer floats begin to offer you very little happiness at all, because you have become used to the taste of vanilla ice cream and root beer mixed together. However, the second time you find a thumbtack in your root beer float, your despair is much greater than the first time, when you dismissed the thumbtack as a freak accident rather than part of the scheme of a soda jerk, a phrase which here means "ice cream shop employee who is trying to injure your tongue," and by the twelfth time you find a thumbtack, your despair is even greater still, until you can hardly utter the phrase "root beer float" without bursting into tears. It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

Stendhal

Happy girls are the prettiest

Success is getting what you want..Happiness is wanting what you get.

those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.

Stephen Richards

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

Alexander McCall Smith

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.

Epictetus

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castañeda

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

Elizabeth Gilbert

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

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.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Daphne du Maurier

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.

I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself.

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Sarah Addison Allen

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Epictetus

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

Gordon B. Hinckley

All who joy would winMust share it -- Happiness was born a twin.

George Gordon Byron

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

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.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

William Shakespeare

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.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it

Viktor E. Frankl

The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

G.K. Chesterton

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

Laughter is poison to fear.

George R.R. Martin

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.

Edgar Allan Poe

You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Charles Bukowski

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

Marianne Williamson

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Ayn Rand

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