Happiness Quotes - Page 85

Love is the essence of life and it makes the life worthwhile.

Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?

Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

Anxiety and stress derive from fear and self-doubt.

When you are in doubt and lost, to find the way, chose love.

Happiness [is] only real when shared

Be like Jesus. Live love, speak love, think love…..do all things in love.

You live your life proportional to your love for life.

For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we need to control in order to be happy; tranquility results from replacing our irrational judgments with rational ones

Wherever you go, never forget to be the messenger and cause of happiness.

Wisdom is in silence.

Success and the pursuit of it can nourish your body, but only significance has the ability to nourish your mind, body and spirit.

Love others, not because they deserve your love, but because you want to win their heart to create enduring peace.

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

You have the power to shape your life the way that you want it to be. Every thought, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're just a dreamer, but everything imagined begins with a dream.

The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have.

To find the joy, ignite the light of love.

Think of, at the moment of dying, is there will be any enemy for you? None! Everyone will be the best friend. So win all your enemies with your divine love when you are living.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

To be kind to everyone is a divine beauty.

I yearn to taste my desire on your lips.

Once he said to her: 'You are like me; you are different from other people. You are Kamala and no one else, and within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself, just as I can. Few people have that capacity and yet everyone could have it.

Let us be kind. Let us love to live in harmony, peace, and happiness.

too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

Come, come everyone, come with love, come with joy, come to my heart, there is always spring, roses always smiling, soul is always singing with joy in the light of love. I am waiting, are you coming. My heart is always ready to dance, always ready to love, always ready with a song.

Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death.

The Vitarags (attachment-free enlightened one’s) say, ‘Make whatever intents that are suitable to you. If you get sensual intents towards Me, then do those sensual intents and if you have celibate intents towards Me, do celibate intents and if you get religious intents, do religious intents; if you get reverence-intents, do reverence intents and if you want to curse, then curse me. I confront [challenge] no one.” A person that doesn’t confront goes to Moksha and the person who confronts, resides here [worldly life bondage].

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

...political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the people of this world.

You can, if you believe you can.

Look for the love, you will find the beauty.

Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

When we open ourselves up to feeling, we can't only open ourselves up to feeling certain things. The same is true when we shut ourselves down. The walls that guard against sadness also guard against happiness.

We laugh, that we may not cry.

Time does not create changes, wisdom does. Your wisdom decides the quality of your decisions.

Success is a creative journey with meaning and purpose.

Happy girls are the prettiest

Accept the pain cherish the joys resolve the regrets then can come the best of benedictions-"If I had my life to live over I'd do it all the same."

If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin would’ve changed his mind and places humans at the very bottom.

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

Make inner peace your final destination. Make happiness your life's purpose.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.

Happiness is little more perplexing, in its search you lose peace inside yourself.

You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people’s happiness suffocate.

Let the blossoms of love beautify your heart.Let the spirit dance with joy.

They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, 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.

Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness; a review of research by the Corporation for National and Community Service shows that those who aid the causes they value tend to be happier and in better health. They show fewer signs of physical and mental aging. And it's not just that helpful people also tend to be healthier and happier; helping others causes happiness. "Be selfless, if only for selfish reasons," as one of my happiness paradoxes holds. About one-quarter of Americans volunteer, and of those, a third volunteer for more than a hundred hours each year.

Salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into his secret chamber-

Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result

Failure is temporary but hope is forever.

The change from self-centeredness to human-centeredness is the key to peaceful existence.

It is such a mistake to assume that practicing dharma will help us calm down and lead an untroubled life; nothing could be further from the truth. Dharma is not a therapy. Quite the opposite, in fact; dharma is tailored specifically to turn your life upside down—it’s what you sign up for. So when your life goes pear-shaped, why do you complain? If you practice and your life fails to capsize, it is a sign that what you are doing is not working. This is what distinguishes the dharma from New Age methods involving auras, relationships, communication, well-being, the Inner Child, being one with the universe, and tree hugging. From the point of view of dharma, such interests are the toys of samsaric beings—toys that quickly bore us senseless.

Be at your best and be patient.

We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.

Happiness is contagious.