Quotes About Happiness

But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.

When time passes, memories seem to grow weathered, and even hardships can seem like happy times.

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'

I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.

And no business can possibly equate happy workers (community) with profit (effectiveness). Happy workers are much more productive workers and hence contribute to profit, but no organization is formed for the idea of pleasing its employees.

Wherever there's a happy vacuum caused by an absence of misery, human beings rush in to fill it.

In the words of Wordsworth, we come into the world "trailing clouds of glory," but the fire is soon extinguished, and we lose sight of the fact that we are whole, spiritual beings. We live impoverished, repetitious, unrewarding lives and blame our partners for our unhappiness.

One minute you're involved in your life as you know it, when suddenly you see the one. Your eyes meet (perhaps across a crowded room). Heart palpitations start. And the fairy tale of romance begins. Flowers, batting eyelashes, shared meals, laughter. Sunset walks and little love gifts to each other. You spend hours looking forward to your next time together. Maybe you'll see a movie or simply hang out—talking about everything and nothing.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

We have to understand that to rejoice is to do something, not to feel something" (p. 44).

True happiness is not based on circumstances or success but on the very nature of God. He promises to be our joy. That no matter what happens "it is well with my soul".

When Christ becomes all you need, you will find happy all around you, because he never disappoints.

True happiness is not based on circumstances or success but on the very nature of God. He promises to be our joy. That no matter what happens "it is well with my soul

Our thoughts have prepared for us the happiness or unhappiness we experience.

The reason why man seeks for happiness is not because happiness is his sustenance, but because happiness is his own being; therefore in seeking for happiness, man is seeking for himself.

To create happiness for oneself and others is the whole philosophy of religion.

If one has learned while on earth to create joy and happiness for oneself and for others, in the other world that joy and happiness surrounds one. And if one has sown the seeds of poison while on earth the fruits of these one must reap there; that is where one sees justice as the nature of life. The idea of

The soul's true happiness lies in experiencing the inner joy, and it will never be fully satisfied with outer, seeming pleasures. Its connection is with God, and nothing short of perfection will ever satisfy it.

Solange ein Mensch seine Bestimmung nicht gefunden hat, gleichgültig ob er Erfolg oder Misserfolg hat, ob er glücklich oder unglücklich zu sein scheint, in Wirklichkeit lebt er nicht; denn das Leben beginnt erst in dem Augenblick, in dem ein Mensch den Sinn seines Lebens erkennt. (S. 78)

The soul's happiness is in itself; nothing can make the soul fully happy but self-realization.

It is the soul which is happiness itself, not all outer things which man seeks after, and which he thinks will give him happiness. The very fact that man is continually craving for happiness shows that the real element, which may be called man's real being, is not what has formed his body and what has composed his mind, but what he is in himself.

To attain spirituality is to realize that the whole universe is one symphony in which every individual is one note. His happiness lies in becoming perfectly harmonious with the symphony of the universe.