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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that
Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
My goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child.
The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".
I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American in every community has the right to pursue happiness.
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.
... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.
The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we can adjust our attitude toward what we do have so that our expectations conform to our experience.
I believe in the sun, even when it rains.
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...
I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.
A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.
The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves.
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.
Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.
Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
I certainly do believe that a lot of comedy comes from awkwardness and embarrassment - pointing out the ways things are uncomfortable. Definitely the stuff that interests me. I don't necessarily think that comedy comes from a dark place, like you have to be a strung-out heroin addict. But I don't think it comes from happiness, that's for sure. It comes from frustration and suppressed rage, and wishing the world were different.
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.
Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.
I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.
The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.
Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.
When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.
The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.
Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits.
Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause.
Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.
Seriousness is equated with responsibility, when, in fact, I think we would be much more responsible if we had more joy and laughter in our lives.
Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Allow yourself to be happy right now, even if outside circumstances seem imperfect. Waiting for everything to be "perfect" means delaying the happiness that you are meant to enjoy now. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy this very moment . . .now.
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.
The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.
Happiness is a carnival game. It's never as easy as it looks, but the dumb ones always seem to be walking around with a big stuffed animal.
