Happiness Quotes - Page 132

The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.

I have always debated Vijay on the presence of god, that god is not real, fake. I do not know why it felt strange there. I think the people who follow their dreams, the people who do what they love and the people who are truly happy. They have presence of god inside them, they are just normal people like me, but they know what happiness is, they know what love is, they know the meaning of life. They are their own god, they guide themselves, and they show themselves the path and live the life of their own choices.

And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.

Not all of us have to possess earth-shaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

My love is for you life after life, for infinite time, my love is for you, forever.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

We all live with the objective of being happy our lives are all different and yet the same.

True expectations never ever go unnoticed. So expect happiness and expect abundance.

Appreciation is a great virtue, and if husbands and wives expressed it more frequently in our homes, wives would be happier, and husbands would probably be more kind" (Gospel Ideals, p. 475).

Pleasure is ‘suffering’ (vedna) and pain is distress as well. If pleasure is ‘suffering’, it cannot be considered a pleasure. If pleasure is enjoyed excessively, it becomes ‘suffering’. How can it be considered a pleasure? These are all entanglements of those living in illusion [of the Self]. To live in the ocean of happiness and yet no dislike arises; that is known as true happiness.

Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.

The land, that thou see now to have root, shall thou see wasted suddenly.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

What you think of about a nation or a situation is your self-expression and mind’s reflection.

Love as if you are living just to love. Live as if your life depends on love.

Circumstances, events or situations do not have inherent meanings except what you give them

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

Thoughts are the imagination of the conscious mind and dreams are the imagination of the subconscious mind.

Not the action, but the expectation creates results.

With limited money you can survive, with more money you can live.

The happiness of your life depends on which thoughts you choose to believe.

You may not always change your situation but you can always change your perception. For better or worse, it will change the situation.

Fewer the necessities, better your life will be.

Live Today! Do not allow your spirit to be softened of your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist.

You are human, so stop acting as if though you are a sheep and start thinking for yourself.

More focus has been placed on these subjects through human history than on anything else—mystery and mysticism, God, imagination, intuition, the nature of relationships, human purpose, happiness and salvation…

Education transforms and transcends the human mind toward perfection.

Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.

Cosmic Ordering will never forsake you.

If you were to put all of the world’s pain in one fifty-five gallon drum, it would look silly next to the mountains of gold and silver found in each moment with God. Our problem is that we rarely see past the drum – The Dance of the Dead

The difference between those who achieve their dreams and those who don’t is in their ability to see not only with their eyes but also their minds.

. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of blood . . . Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under divers names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty. We find, in all the religions, 'a God of armies,' a 'jealous God,' an 'avenging God,' a 'destroying God,' a 'God,' who is pleased with carnage, and whom his worshippers consider it a duty to serve. Lambs, bulls, children, men, and women, are sacrificed to him. Zealous servants of this barbarous God think themselves obliged even to offer up themselves as a sacrifice to him. Madmen may everywhere be seen, who, after meditating upon their terrible God, imagine that to please him they must inflict on themselves, the most exquisite torments. The gloomy ideas formed of the deity, far from consoling them, have every where disquieted their minds, and prejudiced follies destructive to happiness.

A friend is he who can feel your heart's beating and dance with it when it is joyful, cry with it when it is torn, and inspire when it is in need.

Fear is the killer of a great future life.

Love is the ecstasy of life.

To live a worthy life, just love. Love is the essence of life and it makes the life worthwhile.

If life is a flower, then love is the beauty of that flower.

Once I started trying to give positive reviews, though, I began to understand how much happiness I took from the joyous ones in my life---and how much effort it must take for them to be consistently good=tempered and positive. It is easy to be heavy; hard to be light. We nonjoyous types suck energy and cheer from the joyous ones; we rely on them to buoy us with their good spirit and to cushion our agitation and anxiety. At the same time, because of a dark element in human nature, we're sometimes provoked to try to shake the enthusiastic, cheery folk out of their fog of illusion---to make them see that the play was stupid, the money was wasted, the meeting was pointless. Instead of shielding their joy, we blast it.

The more you give, the more you will have to give.

Making love to a person in their sleep is the only guarantee they'll wake up with a smile on their face.

You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.

We experience happiness on a sensory level that is relatively short-lived. But lasting happiness is related to our state of mind.

Unhappy: People look around and think, why are there so many people that are unhappy? We have progressed so far, yet people are still unhappy. Why isn’t this world the wonderful place it could be? Changing the world doesn’t change us.It does not matter how much we progress materially; it will not change anything. Only learning and seeing the truth will change us, and thus change everything.The truth transforms a mortal man into an immortal spiritual being.It does this because the truth just shows you what you truly are, and that changes everything. The truth does the same thing for the way we see the world and for the same reason. It shows you life clearly; it shows you true life for the first time.

This is where happiness sneaks up on you, and you forgive evil people for unforgivable things because they give you a taste of a future you always thought was beyond your reach.

Happiness gives you the freedom to enhance your ability to achieve success. Your choices in life are a direct reflection of your level of happiness. It's the sunshine for your soul that you need in order to grow

Although there are things that just tend to rub you the wrong way too! Smile and move on your choice!

Happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

O thy! Thou made me infinite with infinite love.Not by finishing, but by transforming to infinite for infinite joy!

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

Loving yourself is of vital importance. Because there is no way you'll love another soul if you fail to have self love. Embrace your beautiful spirit and shine light for those who may be living in the dark. You are human and your heart is designed to love and live. You can not be open to love if you're not loving yourself.

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.

You may have noticed that the questions asked are better than the answers given. What do you expect? Perhaps we could submit these answers in a game and see if anyone could figure out what the hell the question was. “Ahh, how to be happy?

Forget your past,Use your pain;Accept that pain,And Achieve the gain.

We grow up in a belief system according to which children should always make their parents proud and happy (instead of making themselves proud and happy) - and that’s unfortunately the belief system in most cultures.

An innovator sees things not as they are, but as they could be.

We're always telling ourselves that we "want to be happy" when what we really have to say is "I NEED to be happy. I NEED to do the things I love. I NEED to surround myself with people that make me smile.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

For success we need to focus with a converging thought process.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.