Happiness Quotes - Page 112

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calender that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from the chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Of all the variables in your life, your relationships may hold the greatest power to make you either happy or miserable

The transitory and random quality of emotions (“Well, that’s just the way I feel about it”) is deeply connected to, and largely the cause of, random engagement of one’s values and priorities. This very randomness and inconsistency is actually the cause of deeper suffering, primarily through the accumulation of addictions and the indulgence in reactions that are disproportionately small in comparison to what is really being sacrificed for them. Curiously—and a major theme in my own work over decades—the casual association of emotions to love is part of the insanity in all this.

Love with your heart, not with your mind, mind is judgmental, but heart is not.

Happiness is, when it comes to the understanding of its meaning, to sometimes be unhappy.

Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."

You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.

She was in control of her life, even though it seemed she wasn’t. All she had to do was take the steering wheel and start driving.

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

Your vision helps the world identify you at the appropriate time.

Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface.

The most importantcommitment you will ever makeis to being the best you can be.

Look at the beautiful side of life and be happy.

Negative situations can never overwhelm a positive mind.

If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote.

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...

What will he then do unto his name whereby we are called? ...of these things have I asked.

Dancing is my daily exercise.

I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

Good health and happiness are life’s most precious treasures. Those who possess them are blessed.

Creating abundance must start from within ourselves.

Complaining or picketing will not solve a problem but understanding will.

listen thoughtfullysounds of laughtergaiety and melancholy galore

Be willing to constantly travel towards the dreams of your future and don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

You haven't rewarded evil unto them who were at peace with you; nor you have delivered them that without cause is your enemy. But they want to tread down your soul upon the earth, and lay your honour in the dust.

Without love, life is worthless.

The Ego uses the mind as a means of spiritual search. It is through the mind that the Ego intends to understand what is beyond mind and forms. The mind in this way prepares the mental image of enlightenment, seeking, happiness etc.

Nezhdanov's heart began to beat violently and he lowered his eyes involuntarily. This girl, who had fallen in love with a homeless wretch like him, who trusted him, who was ready to follow him, to go with him towards one and the same goal — this wonderful girl — Marianna — at that moment was, for Nezhdanov, the embodiment of everything good and just on earth; the embodiment of that love, that of a family, sister or wife, which he had not experienced; the embodiment of homeland, happiness, struggle and freedom.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

Never be paralyzed by fear, just by falling off a cliff

Be confident. Don't seek permission to be yourself.

If everyone practices the power of their love, there will be happiness and no war.

To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge

It feels great to share life.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

Acting courageously is about knowing and making the right choices based on a deep conviction that dwarfs fear, doubt, and worry.

Your Skin is not a deprivation, your life is not a defeat, the fact that you call yourself black does not mean that your eyes, soul and brain are black try to whiten yourself. If they blackmail you, whitemail yourself.Don't allow people's opinion to pin you down. Build yourself above the standard of slavery.

Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.

It has taken me quite a few years to realize the fact that most of the thoughts in my head are not necessary.

A friend asked, "If increased awareness means less happiness, why bother?" No answer.Three or four nights later I had a dream. I was driving. To my right I sawbaby cranes — blue-green, all legs, beak, and wings — standing in a field. They took off and crashed, took off and crashed. I stopped the car and got out. "That looks like it hurts. Why do you do it?" One of the cranes looked me square in the eye. "We may not fly very well yet, but at least we aren't walking."I awoke, happy. From that moment, there has been no turning back.

Your understanding and use of time decides the life you will have in the future.

Those who have assets must withdraw them from the markets of loans. Do not accept notes of loan on speculation. The time will soon come when you will gain no profits from the market of loans, and your wealth will be taken by the very few.

May you have warmth in your igloo oil in your lamp and peace in your heart.

Since I can remember, for some reason, I was always “not like others,” and it was presented by everyone like there was something wrong with me; only becoming more grown up and mature, I realized that to be special and different from the crowd is my biggest value and happiness.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The best way to find the opportunity in the future is to prepare yourself for it today.

There is no greater peace than work and no greater happiness than progress.

Happiness is not in the absence of challenges but the choice to dwell on infinite hope.

A smile is much lighter to carry than a frown!

Why are we miserable, when there is music?

Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at once to belong to a different universe, is surrounded with poetry, makes of our lives a vast expanse, quick with sensation, on which that person and ourselves are ever more or less in contact.

It is very easy to fall in the ocean of love and feel great,but it's difficult to get out of the river of love and forget.

It is always better to fail than not to participate.

Choose your battles wisely.Unless you have a very highchance of victory, spare yourenergy and walk away

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.

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

You can only conquer hate with love.

Smile is a power someone cannot defeat.