Quotes About Happiness

He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.

Mutluluk,yaz ya?muruna benzemez. Umulmad?k anda birden bire bo?anmaz insan?n tepesinden. Azar azar gelir. ?nsan?n hayata ve çevresine kar?? davran??lar? getirir mutlulu?u, Azar azar birike birike. Gerçek mutluluk böyle do?ar.

But a man cannot remain indifferent to the world around him; it worries him and torments him to think that he could be happier somewhere else, and that he is where he is simply through a mistake of fate

Gerçek mutluluk, yava? yava?, azar azar gelir ve bu bizim hayata bak?? aç?m?zla, çevremizle, çevremizdekilere kar?? davran???m?zla do?rudan do?ruya ilgili ve orant?l?d?r. Mutluluk, birbirini tamamlayan ufak tefek ?eylerin birikmesinden do?uyor.

Why did everyone become so obsessed with being 'perky', upbeat, and happy all the time? In our happiness-obsessive culture, even a lack of smile might cause people to think there is something wrong with you. What's worse is when we buy into it ourselves.

We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

Joy = Love - Fear

This equation has helped many people I know identify the difference between practicing happiness and pursuing it. When my happiness feels elusive, I tend to ask myself, "What am I not being grateful for, and what am I pursuing that's distracting me from that gratitude?

Defining moments rise above the everyday. They provoke not just transient happiness, like laughing at a friend's joke, but memorable delight. (You pick up the red phone and someone says, "Popsicle Hotline, we'll be right out.") To construct elevated moments, we must boost sensory pleasures

ELEVATION: Defining moments rise above the everyday. They provoke not just transient happiness, like laughing at a friend's joke, but memorable delight.

The Happiness Hypothesis, by Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt. See Haidt (2006), The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, New

It's like Tolstoy's quote: "All happy families resemble each other, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." All

CONNECTION: Defining moments are social: weddings, graduations, baptisms, vacations, work triumphs

Because when a customer says thanks, they make you happy, but they make themselves even happier.

Defining moments rise above the everyday. They provoke not just transient happiness, like laughing at a friend's joke, but memorable delight.

If I could sum up what the Bible teaches about giving in one statement, it would be this: Generous living produces emotional happiness.

I would learn then that generosity has little or nothing to do with how much money you have or how far along you perceive yourself to be on your spiritual journey. In fact, I was shocked to learn that being generous has much more to do with being smart, shrewd, wise, and deliriously happy. In a word, I discovered that generosity is genius!

The goodness of God is that which disposes Him to be kind, cordial, benevolent, and full of good will toward men. He is tenderhearted and of quick sympathy, and His unfailing attitude toward all moral beings is open, frank, and friendly. By His nature He is inclined to bestow blessedness and He takes total pleasure in the happiness of His people.1

Begitu lah kadang2 bila kita terjun ke jurang kehidupan kita.Tidak ada yang bisa menemani kita,bahkan mereka yang mau mengorbankan hati mereka demi kebahagian kita,juga tidak.

And this is one of the final things I learn about love: it's found in its purest form, on this imperfect earth, between mothers and young children, because there's nothing they want except to make each other happy.

Who am I to say that small joys are less valuable than a passion which shatters your life?

I heard the laments of the people of Hastinapur, their sorrow at losing us. But I no longer required their tears. It baffled me that as a younger women I'd thought that such a thing would make me happy.

made to the other women when I joined them at night. The pleasures that arise from sense-objects are bound to end, and thus they are only sources of pain. Don't get attached to them.