Happiness
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- To live without comparison is to remove a tremendous burden.
- To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
- To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive — to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.
- To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
- To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortune, and not your fortune by your desires.
- Tomorrow will be the first sunrise of the rest of your life – make it what you want. And remember that happiness is a choice.
- True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.Charles Caleb ColtonCommonly attributed
- Try to be happy in this very present moment; and put not off being so to a time to come: as though that time should be of another make from this, which is already come, and is ours.
- Try to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.
- [U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
- Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
- Wanting what you have will make you happier than having what you want.
- We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others.Eknath EaswaranSourced
- We always think we'd be happier in some faraway place, as if you could catch a plane to a state of mind.
- We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.
- We cannot afford to be anchorites. There is no such thing as being happy ourselves unless we make others happy.
- We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
- We can't control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.
- We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents. And that's when you really experience the joy of painting.Bob RossCommonly attributed
- We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.George Bernard ShawCommonly attributed
- We know nothing of to-morrow; our business is to be good and happy to-day.
- We may make the best of life, or we may make the worst of it; and it depends very much upon ourselves whether we extract joy or misery from it.
- We must laugh before we are happy, or else we may die before we ever laugh at all.
- We must start from the joy of life, from respect, from humanity, because the most important thing in life is having respect for other people. Especially for those who might think very differently from you.
- We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.
- We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.Frederick KoenigCommonly attributed
- We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
- We will realize that selfishness brings nothing but pain--that giving has its pleasures as well as receiving.
- What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how others regard him.
- What if, for one day, you forgot what you always wanted and let what you have be enough?
- What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
- When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
- When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.Helen KellerSourced
- When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
- When we help ourselves, we find moments of happiness. When we help others, we find lasting fulfillment.
- While you are waiting for something big, learn to enjoy the little things. For one day, you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.
- Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion
- Who is rich? Those who are happy with their portion.Ben ZomaCommonly attributed
- Without gratitude and appreciation for what you already have, you’ll never know true fulfillment.
- Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.