Quotes About Happiness

If you expect to have it all, you will have nothing. Learn to be happy with nothing -- and you will have it all!

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.

Comfort is a double-edged sword. A little will increase health and happiness; too much -- and it will destroy both.

Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?

You can gain an unexpected amount of happiness from rediscovering normal, everyday experiences from your past.

The purpose of life is to serve. To serve is to make others happier, healthier, empowered, and enlightened.

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.

In all affairs, whether large or small, there are few men who reach a happy conclusion except through the Way. If you do not succeed, you are bound to suffer from the judgment of men. If you do succeed, you are bound to suffer from the yin and yang. To suffer no harm whether or not you succeed - only the man who has virtue can do that.

I know the joy of fishes In the river Through my own joy, as I go walking Along the same river.

He wanted his little slice of happiness so much that he sacrificed the whole pig for a slice of ham.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.

It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there's always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

Maribeau said that "none but men of strong passions are capable of rising to greatness." Tennyson said, "The happiness of a man in his life does not consist in the absence but in the mastering of his passions." Franklin said that "he is a governor that governs his passions and he is a servant that serves them.

When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.

I believe in one God and no more, and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy." —Thomas Paine

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

We do not stop working and playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop working and playing.

How happy a person is depends upon the depth of his gratitude. You will notice at once that the unhappy person has little gratitude toward life, other people and God.

Fericirea nu este o chestiune referitoare la când - este ACUM! Nu ceea ce ai te face fericit, ceea ce eÈ™ti te va face fericit!

The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.

Where can you find purpose? Like success and happiness, our purpose exists in the present, and we constantly strive toward the future to maintain it. What it is for which we strive is up to each of us. The important thing is that we strive toward something.

Because life is a learning experience, fishing without counting the fish is happiness.