Happiness Quotes - Page 81

We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

The roots of the abundant life may seem bitter, but its fruits are sweet.

The world belongs to dreamers.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Happiness begins with you. Not with your relationship, your friends, or your job. but with you.

Hope might grant you a wish in the nick of time, Cosmic Ordering grants them all the time.

Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out. . . and she said, "So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control.

Erase from your vocabulary the word “someday.” Do not save things for “special occasions.” Take into account the fact that every day is special. Every day is a gift that we must appreciate and be thankful for. Wear your attractive clothes, wear your nice perfume, use your fine silverware and dishes, and drink from your expensive crystal glasses … just because. Live every day to the fullest and savor every minute of it.

Every flower is telling you the secrets of life; to understand, you have to listen to them with your heart.

My dear, please be careful.You no longer live only for yourself.You live for me as well.

Happiness lies even in ltiny ittle butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it

When you can love your enemy unconditionally, that is the practice of divine love.

When you are present, you are not needy.

Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning.

Treat others good and you will be a moral compass.

If you constantly go back over your life and focus on the difficulties from the past, you are just bringing more difficult circumstances to you now.When you think back over your life, let go of all the things you don't love about your life, let go of all the things you don't love about your childhood and keep only the things you love. Let go of the things you don't love about your adolescent and adult years and keep only the good things. When you do, you'll discover that you begin to feel happier and happier. The more positive thoughts you entertain, the more you notice the things that you love and that make you feel good, and the happier you become.Like attracts like, and when you're happy, you attract happy people, circumstances, and events into your life. This is how your life changes - one happy thought at a time!

Death, I've dreamed of it, I've desired it, but what real happiness can come from it?

I like how Mother Teresa put it: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile." If you approach life this way, always looking for ways to build instead of to tear down, you'll be amazed at how much happiness you can give to others and find for yourself

Success isn’t entirely a numbers game, but numbers play a part.

Life is a journey worth making.

Happiness and unhappiness are contagious.

If you stand right at the edge of the night sky, some place where one o’clock leaves to meet two, the breeze will carry your words up to the stars. And they’ll swallow your secrets until its time to hand them over to the truths in the sky- the ones that draw maps in the black. They carve their answers into the backs of my hands, the grooves of the words running deep in my palms.

You should find the same joy in one condition as in the other and thereby be free of care, that is all. But now, when the things that happened along take their leave, you cease to be joyful. From this point of view, though you have joy, it will always be fated for destruction.

No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.

Monsters don’t get happy endings.

It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk. The anticipation of dinner and a book. The dinner is by now forgotten; Lessing has been long overshadowed by other writers. What lives undimmed in Clarissa's mind more than three decades later is a kiss at dusk on a patch of dead grass, and a walk around a pond as mosquitoes droned in the darkening air. There is still that singular perfection, and its perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. Now she knows: That was the moment, right then. There has been no other.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

There is always a way forward if the responsible parties are willing to act.

Those who are happy will make many souls happy.

We fail to enjoy the sacred moment, when we overwork.

The joy of writing is the fullness of existence.

It is not clear that married people are, on average, happier than those who never married, because unhappily married people are the least happy group of all and they pull down the average.

War never can bring peace; only understanding, love, kindness and compassion can do that.

Embrace each other with joyful smiles and sacred kiss.

To be alive simply means to have faith, one has faith that the air one breathes will sustain one, hence being alive without the other kind of faith will be counterproductive to the reason one is alive.

There is no destination; when you manifest the love, health, money you so desire and deserve, you will have the desire to manifest more. Your soul wants all these experiences and declaring your desires is just a way of directing you towards a pathway that will give you all the experiences you want on a deeper level. Fly up in your balloon, take your loved ones with you and while you are up there, make rainbows appear, just like I did.

Our lives are defined by how we spend our time and what we choose to do daily. A life of passion is not an act but a lifestyle.

To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

For her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

The desire to win a war is expensive, but the desire to win with wisdom is wise.

After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the feelings that will come next. Your feelings are a part of your experience. Yet no mere feeling, however intense it may seem, is your permanent reality.

It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. But on an occasion such as this it was different, for the spirit of convention was being rigorously adhered to, and in between his ribs Mr. Flay experienced twinges of pleasure.

Your body and my body are both totally made up of and dependent upon the elements of the earth—the water, the air, the heat, the land, the soil and the food it produces—as well as all of the elements that these elements are dependent upon—the sun, the stars, the galaxies, and a vast field of energy and space to contain them in. Nature is our extended body, and the elements outside of our skin are just as important to our health as the elements within our skin. Our bodies are connected to the universe as a whole, and consequently to each other and the many ways in which we influence our shared environment.

Smiling is not a choice It’s a Lifestyle Pass it on

Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).

Let us say goodbye to winter to welcome the beauty of spring.

Where there are no changes there is no life. A plant has to change to bloom.

When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.

How much longer until we finally figure out how to be with one another?How many times do we have to play out this pain?I’m ready for something different.Aren’t you.

This moment is yours and yours alone! Take charge, seize this moment and allow it to propel you to the high levels of an empowered life. Allow upon this fertile moment to be planted the seeds of your happiness and success.

It's hard not to feel happy when you make someone smile.

We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.

With a clear idea of what you want in life, you need to actively pursue your dream. Half-hearted attempts will not work.

Find out how much time you have then get busy using it.