Happiness Quotes - Page 166

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

When you let it go with love, but without expectations, it is forever yours.

You have to master the art of selectivity in everything you do. Otherwise, you could be side-tracked by secondary events and opportunities.

Until you develop the courage to pursue that dream in your heart, you will never reach your true potential.

Happiness is an inner perception, not a reality.

I need you, Fern. I'm not going to lie. I need you. But I don't need you the same way Bailey did. I need you because it hurts when we're apart. I need you because you make me hopeful. You make me happy.

The hardest part about walking away from someone is the part where you realize that, no matter how slowly you go, they will never run after you.

To be happy, find the happiness inside you; there is no better thing that you can do.

Compassion is even more powerful than courage. Sure, with courage you can conquer a world - but only with compassion can you heal and build it.

Tell her happiness is just practice," he said. "If only she acted happy, she would be happy.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.

Express your feelings, no matter what. Make your every word beautiful, bright, and lovely. Make your every thought creative, caring, and lively.

Close your eyes and trust; go in the direction of what makes you feel authentically lighter and brighter. There is no good or bad. Retribution feels vibrationally better than desperation. It’s better than sitting still because your energy has movement. Frustration is better than retribution, because now you’re not projecting negative energy outward, you’re processing it within. Apathy is better than frustration; at least you’ve reached some form of detachment. Optimism is better than apathy. Optimism becomes happiness. Co-creative inspiration follows… and then comes joy.

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice over-rates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that between a private and a public station: vain-glory, that between obscurity and extensive reputation. The person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions, is not only miserable in his actual situation, but is often disposed to disturb the peace of society, in order to arrive at that which he so foolishly admires. The slightest observation, however, might satisfy him, that, in all the ordinary situations of human life, a well-disposed mind may be equally calm, equally cheerful, and equally contented. Some of those situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others: but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardour which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice; or to corrupt the future tranquillity of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice.

Raise you awareness and share your uniqueness to the world.

By simply and profoundly giving love to yourself everyday in every way you are saying to the Universe you are worthy of attaining any dream, vision or goal. Feel worthy of it.

With the wings of love, flyin the imaginative and joyful blue sky.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows it might be a diamond in the rough.

An approach, according to which children should fulfil their parents’ dreams/ do everything in order to make their parents happy/ provide their parents with a peace of mind, or whatever they want for themselves - because they owe it to them for all those years in which their parents took care of them - is utterly selfish.

Most of us respond with panic when we get what we want. The moment of victory is often the moment of greatest peril. We let success get to our head and start acting in over-confident ways. This is the beginning of self-destruction

Five minutes after something happened might not be the best time for you to get into your Facebook and tell everybody. Men's panic does not produce God's power.

Did you fail? Try, try again. There is no gain without pain.

No other thing or no other person is going to make me happy in life, I just have to do that myself.

The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. -The Crone's Eyes

People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that." "If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it.

Mindset & context are the 2 main ingredients entrepreneurs and leaders must use for creating sustainable real success

A moment of sadness is the best time for deepest reflection.

Love never could be overdone or go out of style.

Happiness is not always the answer let the other emotions out is sometimes what is needed

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.

May you have a joyful and grateful spirit.

It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness; and that those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summits of human life, have not often given any just occasion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower station; whether it be that apparent superiority incites great designs, and great designs are naturally liable to fatal miscarriages; or that the general lot of mankind is misery, and the misfortunes of those whose eminence drew upon them an universal attention, have been more carefully recorded, because they were more generally observed, and have in reality only been more conspicuous than others, not more frequent, or more severe.

Happiness does not mean being free from problems and trials, but finding purpose in problems and trials can result in abundant happiness.

A man’s true world should be the space and people that enrich his soul,

Good fortune is created/written/made.

Since graduating from HMS my greatest satisfaction has unequivocally been my family. My main disappointment is that I have wasted too much time in personal pursuits and been less of an influence for good than I might have been.

I’ve been able to see all that I’ve needed, my love: your kindness, your compassion, your tenderness, your love, and your soul. These are all I care about.Of course you do and I don’t expect anything different from you. But next time, I will give you more. You’ll see the colours of every season.

Love is the most likable, invisible fashion of life that you can wear with passion.

The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

If you are the light of peace there will be no darkness of hatred.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work youbelieve in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you willfind happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Though we think we see different things from our windows, in reality we see the same things: Happiness and sorrow! All that is seen from every window!

Success comes from patience and passion.

If you put all of your eggs in love’s basket, joy will hatch.

It is easy to live with someone of value than someone famous.

Money almost always ends up disappointing. Buying things to give lasing satisfaction is an illusion. Money can't buy happiness. The people with the most money are often times the MOST miserable people.

moments of something this good, this unexpected and off his usual path, they always dredged up old shit, like somehow happiness came with sorrow as its anchor.

When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a realist who says the world is terrible, or a naïve optimist who says the world is wonderful and turns a blind eye. [Jack] Gilbert takes this middle way, and I think it’s a far better way: he says the world is terrible and wonderful, and your obligation is to joy. . . . A real, mature, sincere joy—not a cheaply earned, ignorant joy. He’s not talking about building a fortress of pleasure against the assault of the world. He’s talking about the miraculousness of moments of wonder and how it seems to be worth it, after all.

I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life.

Every answer you ever need lies within your own silence..

Happiness is not found in a life lived for the expectations of others.Rather than seek happiness living my life to please the will of others, I will seek happiness where I know it can be found—living my life to please the will of my heart.

In the dark, there is silence but in the light there is warmth.

What happens outside you, and what happens inside you - happens in two entirely different worlds. You can take charge of only one of these worlds.

There is much more joy in being a survivor than been a quitter.

Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.

Every time you say ‘but’, you aregiving yourself a get-out clause.

You can touch the moon if you really want to do it.

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.