Happiness Quotes - Page 75

Sometimes we are tested with a great idea or opportunity just to see if we will act upon it, however the timing may not be right. We are being prepared for something else down the road... When we understand that all things happen for our benefit and we trust in the Lord, then we can accept what we have termed as "failures" knowing that in the end it will all work out and we will be happy.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.

There are four things a child needs: plenty of love nourishing food regular sleep and lots of soap and water.

My love is for you lives after life, for infinite time even though I will never get you, but my love for you is forever.

Your success should create a path that inspires others to follow.

As is our enthusiasm, so is our ability.

Just because you stumbled a few times in the past doesn't mean you won't overcome. Realize that adversity and challenges arise, but you are made stronger. Embrace the day. Seize the moment. Your time is now.

No matter how much someone else loves you or you love other people, if you don’t love yourself then it can never be enough.

There's just so much to live for.

Respond with love even when someone wants to hurt you.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.

When there is harmony between thoughts and deeds, there is peace.

Sharing is caring.

Your goals should not be based on what you can do or what is possible but on what you want.

God wants to use you right where you are with what you have not what you do not have.

Anything you do, do with love and enthusiasm.

Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affectionTakest warmth enough, and from thine eyeAll lesser birds will take their jollity.Up, up, fair bride, and callThy stars from out their several boxes, takeThy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and makeThyself a constellation of them all;And by their blazing signifyThat a great princess falls, but doth not die.Be thou a new star, that to us portendsEnds of much wonder; and be thou those ends.

Peace is a beautiful flower of love, harmony and joyPeace is a dancing bird, a joyful smile of a poor boyPeace is a little child's innocent smile and loving kissFor a war torn mother, peace is a divine bliss.Peace starts with a heart that is caringPeace starts with a smile that is lovingPeace starts with power of love not with love of powerPeace starts with a desire to bloom like a flower.

… a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Luxury is not happiness - happiness is luxury.

Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them.

A fool thinks he is always right, a wise person always doubts himself.

Happiness is a drug. It creates a biological change in the brain cells that inhibits negative feelings. Happiness boosts energy and increases energy in others.

Feel the love, be the love, to spread the love.

If you wish to be happy, listen to your heart.

It is not the fame, not the flesh, not the money. We want something else, something pretty.

You are judged many times more by what you give assent to others doing than what you do yourself.

We left behind the other kids; their path-working, drinking, and being grown up- and rejected all that made them grumpy, uncreative and lifeless. We dumpstered, squatted, and shoplifted our lives back. Everything fell into place when we decided our lives were meant to be lived. Life serves the risk taker...

I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.

Happiness, love and compassion are the aroma of your soul.

We will go away and nothing will remain except what we shared and gave away with love.

Study yourself and develop your personal inspiration routine, applying it to your life every day to help you create the extraordinary life you deserve.

Fun is never gone because life is fun.

Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

An appreciating heart radiates happinessGratitude fills your life with bliss and joyfulness.

Count your blessings as the more you are grateful for what you have the more there is to be grateful for.

To live drown in love.To live like the dead, fear the love.

It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have.

It’s worth burning myself out like a matchso long as others receive the light and warmth I dispatch.

Be happy. Be happy for no reason at all. Believe it or not, you have the ability and free agency to make that choice.

If a city is designed in a way that makes a long drive to work necessary, we harm the social health of that city. If a lot of people cycle, it's probably an indication that you live in a healthy neighborhood. This is something that should be seriously considered in urban planning, if you want to ensure a neighborhood togetherness and trust among locals.

If you’re not happy, then something is wrong. A person comes into the world as a happy being, yet over time, the happiness fades away and they find themselves in this bubble of anxiety and misery all the time. And it’s a comfortable place to stay, so they end up hanging out in this bubble for years and years before it suddenly dawns on them that life is meant to be happy. And, it is. It’s just that they’re too busy getting caught up in worry and stress to notice that life is magnificent and beautiful. Being alive is good. Being alive should already make you happy.

...it pointed to an alternative approach, a ‘negative path’ to happiness, that entailed taking a radically different stance towards those things that most of us spend our lives trying to avoid. It involved learning to enjoy uncertainty, embracing insecurity, stopping trying to think positively, becoming familiar with failure, even learning to value death. In short, all these people seemed to agree that in order to be truly happy, we might actually need to be willing to experience more negative emotions—or, at the very least to learn to stop running quite so hard from them.

Breathing is the fundamental act of being alive. One can go without thoughts, emotions or sensations, sleeping, talking or any other activity for a long time, without food for weeks, without water for days. But if you stop breathing, you’ll be dead before you finish reading this letter. Because it is the essence of life, some focus upon it seems appropriate.

No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home

Be wise and resist pleasures. A fool always seeks pleasures.

When desire meets desire, the stronger one survives. Fulfill your desires! The predator will eat the prey. Our world is a cruel and dirty place...but that's what makes it so beautiful! Hell is the true paradise!

Each to their own reality

we need deep cleansing of our thoughts on and often so that we can recharge our energy for our own health, happiness and purpose

Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.

To find love, joy and peace for the humanity, let us promise to build a peace loving and a kind family.

In the end, you will realize most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Each of us is the best we can be when we are fully present, focused yet relaxed, curious yet non-judgmental, committed yet flexible.

Each moment in time we have it all even when we think we don't.

Penguins don't waste their time trying to fly. They’re unique. They know they were built for the water.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable.

One of the great images to come down to us through Zen Buddhism is the encounter between an enlightened master and an advanced apprentice during the course of a shared meal. The apprentice, becoming fed up with the stress and waiting and the master’s apparent disregard for him, demands an explanation without complication of exactly how to become enlightened. The master asks, “Have you finished your rice?” “Yes,” says the apprentice. “Then go wash your bowl.