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Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.
It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true.
The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have.
I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Family prayer is the greatest deterrent to sin, and hence the most beneficent provider of joy and happiness. The old saying is yet true: 'The family that prays together stays together.'
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Make us happy and you make us good.
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
Happiness is a decision.
Integrity is about being integrated with the spiritual values of the Universe. It is also about being happy, because happiness and joy mean that you're coming into integrity with your soul.
Find joy in the ordinary.
I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
I am happy that I am a unique individual, endowed with unique talents and abilities. I never spend my precious time and energy comparing my talents with those of others.
False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change.
If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.
Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
