Quotes About Happiness

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.

Joy with others is a sure antidote for depression. Anybody who suffers from depression is suffering from the lack of joy with others, the lack of sympathetic joy. One cannot always have joyful occasions, joyful thoughts in one's own life, but if one has joy with other people, one can surely find something to be happy about.

If we want real happiness, the only way it can arise is by letting go of the one who is unhappy. It is not a question of trying to hold on to the one who is happy. Rather, when the unhappy one is relinquished, nothing else remains except the happiness of tranquility and pure awareness.

The mind that doesn't need any outer conditions for happiness is the mind that can say, "This is the release from all suffering. This is true happiness." Such a mind sees with clarity the absolute reality of what's happening in this universe and doesn't have to hang on to anything, attach to anything, doesn't have to become anything, doesn't have to be anything. It just does what is necessary at each particular moment and then lets go.

Nothing that is to be had in the world, anywhere, under any circumstances, is capable of bringing fulfillment

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west.

There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

HiçbirÅŸeyi olmayan?n bile isteyince vereceÄŸi çok ÅŸeyi vard?r. Ald?kça deÄŸil, verdikçe mutluyuz. Kendinden vermek mutluluktur, ama kendini vermek en büyük mutluluktur

Other than a dimple in a cute little chin, What's more adorable than a toothless grin?

The mind that reaches out to other people, to the environment, to provide what it seems to lack itself, is a mind that is ignorant of its own resources for peace and happiness.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy.

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.

Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way-- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it's merely their guess.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

Ledger is still in love with Abby," he said with a sigh. "I can't see any way that can have a happy ending." Just like his own situation, he though. "Boone, well, he's ornery enough that it will take a special woman to turn his head.

It's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen." He laughed. "No, honey, that would be you.

Step 1: Write this phrase on a small piece of paper: I change best by feeling good, not by feeling bad.

Search for celebrations that feel authentic to you. If you feel awkward or phony when celebrating, your attempts will backfire. Your brain doesn't want to feel awkward—it wants to feel good. Celebrations are personal. What makes me feel good (and not lame) is probably different than what makes you feel good (and not lame).

Celebration will one day be ranked alongside mindfulness and gratitude as daily practices that contribute most to our overall happiness and well-being. If you learn just one thing from my entire book, I hope it's this: Celebrate your tiny successes.

It's going to be a great day.