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"The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change
its form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up." "The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." "The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick." "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." "The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment." "The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless." "The essence of pleasure is spontaneity." "The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy." "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." "The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are
happy you will be good." "The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." "The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental
development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are
not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others." "The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a
heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling." "The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly
destructive little things." "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you
entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature." "The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself." "The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself." "The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity." "The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness." "The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable." "The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy." "The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of
it." "The joy that isn't shared dies young." "The key to happiness is to get the spirit and keep it." "The man who is born with a talent which he is meat to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it." "The mere sense of living is joy enough." "The more refined one is, the more unhappy." "The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness." "The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness." "The purpose of our lives is to be happy." "The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it." "The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a
relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung." "The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour." "The road to daily happiness is not hard to find, it's what we do for others that brings us peace of mind." "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation." "The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach." "The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first,
and not taking one's self too seriously." "The secret of happiness is something to do." "The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that
interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile." "The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring." "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present
moment wisely and earnestly. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting." "The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." "The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities
to their greatest extent." "The way to be happy is to make others so." "The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness
is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find." "There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all." "There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one-keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy." "There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which
these seeds may germinate." "There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same
and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier." "There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do." "There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you.
The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them - so keep seeking! If what you do has
brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right." "There is nothing so lovely and enduring in the regions which surround us, above and below, as the lasting peace of a mind centered
in God." "There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who
thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool." "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." "They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods..." "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." "Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed." "To accept ourselves as who we are and allow love into our lives, and to commit to being who we truly are, is the beginning of
true happiness." "To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power." "To be without some of the things you want is an indispensible part of happiness." "To bear pain without letting it spoil your happiness is true valor." "Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to
cherish it..." "To fill the hour - that is happiness." "To find happiness, it is not quite difficult thing. It is just enough to distinguish the blue of the sky from the pink of peach flowers which are opening out." "To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin." "To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy." "To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity." "To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness
than this." "True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from friendship and
conversation of a few selection companions." "True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out you must stay out; and to stay out you
must have some absorbing errand." "True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new." "True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents." "Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it." "Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace." "Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." "Very little is needed to make life happy. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is
something to be enthusiastic about." "We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same." "We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply
to every human being on this planet." "We are as happy as we believe ourselves to be." "We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive
the hope of obtaining it for himself." "We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves." "We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be." "We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented." "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." "We refocus and rededicate our lives by allowing ourselves to feel inner peace. By allowing its strength to strengthen our resolve
and our dedication, we can once again see our greater purpose. We can once again know that our lives as peacemakers are meaningful, that we matter,
and we can make a difference." "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." "We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind." "What is given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour?" "What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?" "What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner." "What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others." "What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up
to a high degree." "When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury
themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad." "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
which has been opened for us." "When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention." "When there is peace on earth everyone will have inner peace. But in order for us to work for peace on earth we must first find
peace within ourselves. This is not an unsolvable riddle. Peace already exists within each of us, if we only let ourselves see and feel its comfort
and wonder... When we stop worrying about all that we have to do, and stop regretting all we wish we'd done, and just let ourselves feel peace - we
have peace of mind. Peace of mind gives us the strength and the vision to keep trying, and keep walking along the path that we KNOW is right for our
lives. Peace of mind is our strength and our reward." "When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to
awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living,
in the hearts you encounter." "When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce
in yourself, with the conscious breathing you establish within yourself, you begin to work for peace in the world." "When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy
when everybody else is crying?" "Whenever we feel overwhelmed by the amount that needs to be done and the distance we have left still to cover, we need to take time
out for peace of mind. When we think that we have so much to do that we don't have time to rest or pause, this is the time we need to stop and refocus
and refuel. When we find our selves caught up in the moment, in a flare of anger, we need to stop and feel inner peace for a moment before we proceed." "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." "Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world." "Whoever is happy will make others happy too." "World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it." "Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a
vision of hope..." "You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them." "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." "You don't always want what makes you happy. Sometimes you go for that thing that takes you higher or lower than you've ever been." "You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it." "You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life- so that if it were over tomorrow,
you'd be content with yourself." "You smile because you are happy. You smile because it is fun. When you want to cry, you should smile." * My Favorite Quotes on Happiness and Inner Peace - Part 1 / 3 * My Favorite Quotes on Happiness and Inner Peace - Part 2 / 3 * My Favorite Quotes on Happiness and Inner Peace - Part 3 / 3  |
