Happy Quotes - Page 25

• Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

  Horace

  Enjoy, Present Day

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• ... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Kindness, Book

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• If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

  Brenda Ueland

  Marriage, Children, Home

  Brenda Ueland (1980). “Me”, Ayer Company Pub

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• I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Happiness, Believe, Personality

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• Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.

  Rajneesh

  Hurt, People, Skins

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• The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.

  Nhat Hanh

  Fear, Trying, Looks

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Song, Time

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.59, Penguin

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• Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Mean, Years

  "Uncle Vanya". Play by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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• 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.

  Laurence Boldt

  Time, Unique, Energy

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.330, Penguin

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• Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Happiness, High Heels, Contentment

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• Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

  Phillips Brooks

  Happiness, Flower, Natural

  Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.53, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Friendship, True Friend

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• Happiness seems made to be shared.

  Pierre Corneille

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  "Notes par Rochefoucauld", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 350-52,

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• Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Happiness, Sound Doctrine, May

  "Critique of Practical Reason". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1788.

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• Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

  Frank McCourt

  Happiness, Glowing, Recalls

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• Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

  Sam Levenson

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Pursue

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• Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Happiness, Believe, People

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• There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

  James D'arcy

  People, Want, Being Myself

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

  Ovid

  Happiness, Hurt, Men

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• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.

  Joyce Meyer

  Happiness, Forward In Life, Victory

  Joyce Meyer (1999). “Life in the Word Journal”, Harrison House

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• As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.

  Nhat Hanh

  Spiritual, Peace And Happiness, Those We Love

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “The Long Road Turns to Joy: A Guide to Walking Meditation”, p.43, Parallax Press

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• Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life

  Drake

  Friendship, Best Friend, Real

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• A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

  Seneca the Younger

  Attitude, Men, Perception

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• Whatever you may be missing right now - a person, a place, a feeling, maybe you are injured and missing running - whatever it is, have peace and take heart - remember that any goodbye makes room for a hello.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Life, Goodbye, Running

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