Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.
True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.
If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.
When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy.
when your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love
Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
According to my own experience, the highest level of inner calm comes from the development of love and compassion. The more concerned we are with the happiness of others, the more we increase our own well-being. Friendliness and warmth towards others allow us to relax and help us to dispel any sense of fear or insecurity so we can overcome whatever obstacles we face.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
Realize that true happiness lies within you.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.
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