Happiness Quotes - Page 8

You can’t excel in everything but you can be exceptional in a few things, so why not choose your life’s focus?

There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.

Cut away the nonsense, the drama, the regret, the scars of the past, and make a decision to no longer let them govern your happiness and freedom.

When God said 'Let there be light'.May be he meant it Inside.

That sense of entitlement is precisely where we want them because the right to happiness is directly opposed to one of The Adversary’s greatest curatives —gratitude.

When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.

Shit works out.

Joy came always after pain.

Never pursue happiness, just create it inside you.

Why are you choosing to be unhappy, when you're created for happiness?

Happiness is the sense that my life is good because my biological needs are being met. Meaning is the sense that my life is significant because it has met the needs of another. Happiness bestows the feeling that I am whole. Meaning bestows the feeling that I matter and am valued. Happiness is an event, and meaning is a state. Happiness is the means to an end; meaning is an end in itself. Happiness fades; meaning accumulates.

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Love, happiness, peace - these are not final destinations. They are in every moment, every breath, everything.

We never enjoy perfect happiness our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

Materialism allows for a greater vision!

Have we all become so desperate to share everything that we've stopped enjoying our lives?

I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the technical and industrial developments that followed in the wake of rapidly progressing natural science.

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

Maybe what you need in your life is not the next level of accomplishment or the next level of accumulation but the next level of appreciation for what you have; that will set the stage to make a space for what you will accumulate in the future. ( a bit deep) Simply put thank God for now before setting the goal for tomorrow because if you grow in gifts and didn't grow in gratitude, you have gained nothing.

Strange that, the way happiness only works in retrospect.

Love is like a chill, it touches your heart, fills your mind, and makes you kind.

Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, which, glimpsed only a little after my twentieth year, made write in those days that what is most valuable in man is his eternal and almost divine discontent, a discontent which is a kind of love without a beloved, and like an ache which we feel in members of our body that we do not have. Man is the only being that misses he has never had. And the whole of what we miss, without ever having had it, is never what we call happiness. From this one could start a meditation on happiness, an analysis of that strange condition which makes man the only being who is unhappy for the very reason that he needs to be happy. That is, because he needs to be what he is not.

Peace is not a place or destination but a perception.Peace is not in wealth or splendorBut in conviction.Peace is in friendship, love and unity.Peace is in care, tranquility and serenity. Peace is in compliment, appreciation and forgiveness. Peace is the source of smile, joy and happiness.

You can be right or you can be happy.

Awareness about lack of knowledge is the most useful knowledge.

Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison you and make you sick. Become aware of new ideas that can refresh your way of life and be open to the fact that your old ideas and philosophies can work for you for some time, but when the shelf-life has passed, those ideas and philosophies could also harm you.

You can't love me if you don't love you, you can't think of nothing to do with me if you can't think of nothing to do with yourself, stop feeling sorry for yourself and tidy up, clean up the apartment until you get a house, do that job until you build your own company. Look at what you have and think on how to make it better.

The difference between a life laced through with frustration and one sustained by happiness depends on whether it is motivated by self-hatred or by real love for oneself.

Most of the times, reason for unhappiness is desiring for the things which are far from fulfilling our expectations.

Be who you are longing to be, practice thinking of yourself as the person of your dreams.

The greatest spiritual leaders in history have all preached love for others as the basis for all happiness, and never did they accompany such mandates with a list of unlovable actions or deeds. They never said, love everybody except for the gays. Love everybody except for the homeless. Love everybody except for the drug users. Love everybody except for the gang members, or those covered in ink, or the spouse abusers. They didn’t tell us it was okay to love everybody with the exception of the “trailer trash,” those living in poverty, or the illegal immigrants. They didn’t tell us it was okay to love everybody except for our ex-lovers, our lovers’ ex lovers, or our ex-lovers’ lovers. The mandate was pretty damn clear, wasn’t it?Love others.Period.

According to just about every poll on happiness, people on the Left are generally less happy than conservatives.

It better to win by the power of love than by the power of might.

Achievers are biased towards action despite any fear, and this courage sets them apart from others.

Your dreams will be your reality if you don't fear them and have enough courage to act on them.

You get lucky when you are well prepared for the opportunity.

The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.

Anyone believing in Cosmic Ordering wants for nothing.

Love never dies, it become the wealth of the universe when we die.

Do not allow your happiness to be controlled by the thoughts of others. People are happy for you one minute and then the next they are looking down their noses at you. You have to find within yourself the kind of happiness that withstands the ups and downs of life. No one should have the power to limit or repress your happiness.

Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

Only two unhappy people can be happy with each other, because they are dependent on the 'other' for happiness. Only an INDIVIDUAL relishes in his own presence, the 'other' is a hindrance to his freedom. He doesn't fit with the society, he stands out from the mediocre, he lives in 'totality' and celebrates in aloneness.

Be one with yourself and revel in eternal bliss.

Focus is where you fail or succeed.

Life is same for everyone. The difference is only that some are living by heart and some for only sake of living

When we see things through our fixed, false beliefs, science becomes superstition.

They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into thedarkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

Those who live in gratitude start their day by setting their intentions and the direction they want to move in each day.

The investment you make in others is transferred to everyone they influence long after you’re gone. Significance

When you're in love, life is a kiss.When you are in doubt life is amiss.

To be successful you must be willing to work hard, work smart, work consistently, and most importantly do all three simultaneously over a long period of time.

Happiness is there when you have great imagination and vision, when you take relentless action and love your creation.

She said that one day they would be very old, that the world would be a different place, but it would always be their world, and that the time apart now would be a nightmare from which they would recover - desperation buried under years of happiness.

Circumvent negative situations, people or anything that will impede progress. These things are toxic to personal achievement; desired end-points are driven by positive attitude and persistence.

Coffee and books are a simple recipe for happiness.

Be happy NOW. This moment is all you’ve got

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone.

...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming the whiskey. The very idea was as dangerous as presumptive speech: happiness could not be sought or worried into being, or even fully grasped; it should be allowed its own slow pace so that it passes unnoticed, if it ever comes at all.

Change your perception and be happy where you are, how you are, with whom you are.