Quotes About Happiness

Gratitude is a mindful awareness of the benefits in one's life.

Can you accept the notion that once you change your internal state, you don't need the external world to provide you with a reason to feel joy, gratitude, appreciation, or any other elevated emotion?

The point is, true happiness has nothing to do with pleasure, because the reliance on feeling good from such intensely stimulating things only moves us further from real joy.

Podemos aprender y cambiar en un estado de dolor y sufrimiento, o evolucionar en un estado de felicidad e inspiración. La

Gratitude is one of the most powerful emotions for increasing your level of suggestibility. It teaches your body emotionally that the event you're grateful for has already happened, because we usually give thanks after a desirable event has occurred.

Podemos aprender y cambiar en un estado de dolor y sufrimiento, o evolucionar en un estado de felicidad e inspiración. La mayoría hacemos lo primero. Para elegir lo segundo debemos concienciarnos de que el cambio seguramente conllevará una cierta incomodidad, algunos inconvenientes, una alteración en nuestra rutina habitual y una etapa de desconocimiento.

And let's say that our ambition in life is to become successful and to accumulate more things. When we do, we reinforce who we are, without ever addressing how we really feel. I call this being possessed by our possessions. We become possessed by material objects, and those things reinforce the ego, which needs the environment to remind itself of who it is. If we wait for anything outside us to make us happy,

True happiness has nothing to do with pleasure, because the reliance on feeling good from such intensely stimulating things [that come from the external environment] only moves us further from real joy [which exists internally, independently of the external environment].

To be happy with yourself in the present moment while maintaining a dream of your future is a grand recipe for manifestation.

Si creemos que en cuanto tengamos el dinero para comprar más cosas seremos de lo más felices, lo estamos viendo al revés. Tenemos que sentirnos felices antes de que la abundancia aparezca en nuestra vida.

tu alma te dice: ¡Escúchame atentamente! Nada del exterior te hará feliz. Te estoy intentando avisar. Pero si sigues participando en este juego, voy a dejar de hacerlo y volverás a dormirte. En este caso te veré cuando tu vida se acabe…

Over time, who knows? You might find yourself naturally walking like a happy person; behaving like a courageous and compassionate leader; thinking like a noble, empowered genius; feeling like a worthy, abundant entrepreneur.

I kept thinking that I was done, that I'd taught all I could teach, but people kept asking for more, so I'd learn more myself and then refine the presentations and meditations. A momentum developed, and I was getting good feedback; people were able to eliminate some of their self-destructive habits and lead happier lives.

What did you want to be when you grew up? What about now? What's on your "bucket list," those things you want to do before you die? What is your calling, the work of your heart and soul? Talk about one of your happiest memories. What made you happy? What could happen out of the blue that would be like a dream come true? What do you want for your children/loved ones that money can buy?

Seeking personal happiness, more often than not, can make people more selfish. Therefore, feeling happy is better viewed as a by-product of living well rather than an aim in itself.

There was no such thing as arguing with delight. Like seeing a pretty girl with the sunlight in her hair, like pancakes and hot chocolate in front of a crackling fire. Delight was one of the fundamental forces of being, like gravity.

Arson is almost as good as Prozac.

Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night. A merry-go-round, a ferris wheel, a kiss from a girl.

She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe. When Wayne fell asleep, his hot cheek against her naked breast, his lips smelling sweetly of the milk from her own body, she felt as if she was the one who had been fed.

What frightened him was not the thought that he was a prisoner of Charlie Manx but that for a moment he had forgotten he was a prisoner. For a moment he had been admiring the light and feeling almost happy.

Puedo ser feliz y encontrarme bien unicamente logrando que otros sean felices y se encuentren bien.La carretera curativa a Christmasland es solo para los inocentes.El coche no me deja acapararla.Tengo que hacer el bien a otros si quiero que me hagan el bien a mi.¡Ojala el resto del mundo funcionara tambien asi!

She was being erased a little at a time by a cancer that fed not on her flesh but on her inner life, on her private store of happiness.

It is odd how much we want to be in love when you think about how much anxiety comes with it, like a tax on money you won in the lottery.

Vic just laughed at that, didn't bother to tell him she had pulled his cell phone apart and shoved it in the garbage the day before. He took her in his arms, held her in his bearish embrace. He was a big man, glum about being overweight, but he smelled better than any guy she had ever met. His chest smelled of cedar and motor oil and the outdoors. He smelled like responsibility. For a moment, being held by him, she remembered what it had been like to be happy.