Happiness Quotes - Page 48

Some teach youwhat can't be taught,by turning their backon you & helpingyou get internallycloser to everythingyou externallysought.

Hope gives happiness.

The promise of the future is only possible when the price is paid in full and in advance.

The joy of living is the heart of thanksgiving.

A dark thought will never lead you to the light because darkness is terrified of light.

Every human being asks pertinent questions regarding how to live, what to believe in, and what we aspire to become. Throughout life, we question what desires and principles to value and prioritize – love, friendship, freedom, happiness, creativity, wealth, security. We make difficult decisions based upon what we trust constitutes ethical behavior. We balance out work and play by considering what a person’s time is worth. We encounter both joyful and unpleasant physical experiences. As we age, we modify some of our youthful assumptions and question the existence of a mystical and divine world. We engage in formal and informal educational activities, which edifying foundation support modest or dramatic shifts in our instinctive and learned behavior patterns, and alter our intellectual and emotional perspective. Each person aspires to live honorably and age gracefully despite encountering physical adversity, financial hardships, sickness, or injury.

Grief helps you come to grips with the loss of a loved one. Guilt helps you make better moral decisions or bring you to apologise for a wrongdoing. In proper doses, these types of negative emotions are necessary and healthy.

Life is exceedingly great.

You were born with success in you and simply need to give it a pathway of expression.

Enjoy time of existence.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.

Life is a rare fantasy that can be made a reality by being objective.

The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.

You live like it is your best when you live on purpose.

God bless Dunkin' Donuts.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity for joy.

Be anxious for no thing, be concerned about the state of your soul and that of your children, be concerned about God's work in the world; these are genuine concern but when it comes to the things in your life.....be not anxious. If God is for us who can be against us?

I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?

If you can't see the assets in you, it will be hard for you to export it to the world. Recognise who you are and the world will recognise you.

Invest in books that will help you become the person you were born to be and do what you should do.

Dreams give purpose to one’s life. If you do not wish anything better for yourself or for your loved ones, then life loses meaning.

Never ask for permission to smile.

And though I was currently living a fairy tale, some part of my soul knew that happiness couldn't last forever. I didn't deserve a happily ever after, and there weren't many other cards to play when that was the truth.

I was happy without having sought happiness.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof canoe. It will take a while to find the peaches, so don't expect me back until dinnertime. Stephano, Gustav's replacement, will arrive today by taxi. Please make him feel welcome. As you know, it is only two days until the expedition, so please work very hard today. Your giddy uncle, Monty

Confidence is good, but confidence with humility is far better.

Only internal bliss is perpetual, nothing else is created to last

When you see everything with love,everything looks at you with love.

One's greatest happiness is also his greatest weakness.

I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.

Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn’t even know they had.

My heart do be so big," she whispered. "It be so big and I do reckon I be about the happiest kid for it.

Remove whatever you no longer need in your life, to make room for what you do need in your life.

It was only that she wanted him to be happy, resenting, however, his inability to be so with things as they were, and never acknowledging that though she did want him to be happy, it was only in her own way and by some plan of hers for him that she truly desired him to be so.

How we perceive of the world around us determines the outcome of what it is we choose to see or not see

As I’ve mentioned too often before, we are governed, and specifically our physicality is governed, by fairly strict rules, which are easily observable in nature. We have some freedom to manipulate some of these, but really not by very much. Everyone knows, or at least has the information, about the horrors of ignoring health issues and expecting your body to do what you want it to do with the least investment in it. Another “authority” telling you what you should do is not the answer.

I am continually coming back to the belief that I know nothing, or that there are much deeper places to go with what I think I know. It's liberating, actually. I don't think the biggest questions can be answered with any certainty. I'm becoming more and more peaceful not knowing.

Here I stand now, with a sweet tingling feeling all over, recalling the last time I was here, and I am glad that I am here again, while wondering why I didn’t recognize it earlier. But now I have got the chance to recognize and deal with it more effectively and I know that I can visit this place as many times as I want, and take as many chances as I want, because I finally realize that I, am in total control of my life.

We came to this world with nothing but love and blessing. The purpose of our life is to be happy by loving and serving.

Somethings can be so simple but bring happiness

Time is manmade! It is simply an invention! Believe it or not, time only exists here on earth for us humans.

Live life to the fullest or foolest.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

Happiness is my drug of choice.

I enjoy the healing music and touch of love, touching my heart and soul when I give it away.

After seven days of fasten so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me- and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding.

Though language forms the preacher 'Tis "good works" make the man.

You have the paintbrush in your hand, you can make the picture of your life brighter and bigger or duller and darker, it’s up to you.

The majority of people in modern society feel separated—from the world, each other, and themselves. This feeling of separation is a resultfrom we humans attempting to separate ourselves from nature, and consequently forgetting who we really are.

You make me believe in happiness... if I had my way, if anything were up to me, I’d never be without you. You are my purpose.

Spread your wings of love and fly in someone's sky of dream and imagination.

I assume you are the sort of person who would go backstage after the opera in hopes of hearing the prima donna crying on the telephone, or walking in on the baritone fellating the basso buffo. I respect that-I was always the same way myself-though I suspect you are not very happy. Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions. I remember, even before this was visited upon me, how I envied those who eagerly did what they were told: those who married without complaint at father's behest; those who looked up rather than sideways in church; those, in short, who honestly believed in God, good kings, and righteous wars.

You go on trying and trying, and you make many decisions and you take many vows,but nothing happens -- you remain the same. Not that you have not tried,not that you have not tried enough, you have tried and tried and tried. And you fail because it is not a question of effort. More effort won't help. It is a question of being alert, not of effort.

Happiness is a journey, not a journey's end.

Practice fear and you will fail. Practice love and success will prevail.

Change in thinking + shift in perspective = change in your life

There is only one risk and that is not taking one.

What does ‘experience of the soul’ mean? It is a state of constant eternal bliss.