Happiness Quotes - Page 29

You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within.

Sometimes you just have to step outside the box and take a leap of faith. You may not be able to see what's on the other side, but you can't remain in the same place. Fear is what keeps you there. If you want something badly enough you'll take the steps to get there. If you believe it, then you can achieve it.

The Limoges set has brought us more joy in its absence than it ever did in our cupboards. Of course, we no longer own a set of china to pass down to our kids, but that's okay. Francois and I plan on giving our children something more valuable, the simple truth that the best way to go through life is to be a major donor of kindness. We'll tell them that it's possible to own a whole bunch of beautiful, valuable things and still be miserable. But sometimes just having a recipe for chocolate Bunt cake can make a person far, far happier.

Instead of trying to hide yourself from the world, make it your signature trait. Make what most people think to be the worst of you become something your proud of.

If you want something better for your life, you've got to start by believing you deserve it.

Imagined happiness is still happiness.

You are the center of your universe, without you nothing is there.

I don't want to be rich yet live a life of unhappiness, but I also don't want to be poor because I have never seen happiness in poverty.

A more peaceful world and a more peaceful century require that we rely not on weapons but on developing a widespread inner peace.

Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.

That’s not our role here, provide our parents with a “success story” to share at gatherings. Our role here is to contribute the best we can to the society. Use our talents and make sure we add the greatest value possible to other people’s lives.

This is where happiness sneaks up on you, and you forgive evil people for unforgivable things because they give you a taste of a future you always thought was beyond your reach.

If you're stressing over happiness, you're doing it wrong!

he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s a sign.

One hundred eighty days, Aislinn. Seth's been gone for one hundred eighty days, and I've watched you try to pretend it doesn't hurt for every one of them. Can't I try to make you happy?

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

Stop wasting any more time looking outside of 'you' for what is not there. Look within and you will find the treasure you seek.

Go thy way, weigh me the weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of the wind, or call me again the day that is past.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Focusing on what you don’t want instead of focusing on what do want gets you nowhere. Negativity makes a horrible motivator. Decide what you want and move in that direction.

Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there.

You cannot be aware of yourself, for you are awareness itself. How can a witness witness itself? That is like trying to see your own eyes without a reflection, or cut a knife with the tip of its own blade—it is impossible. The subject can only observe the object; it cannot make an object out of itself. But by the very act of observing, you indirectly know yourself as the observer, as the subject. No witnessing of the witness is needed to prove its existence.

According to just about every poll on happiness, people on the Left are generally less happy than conservatives.

Liberty opens the door to possibility. Freedom gives us a chance to make that possibility a reality.

The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the decisions you make each day.

Everything is in the root. If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be assured, it is going to grow back.

Do not stop pursuing your dreams in the midst of all the difficult situations you find yourself to be in. Instead, set your goals in faith.

Don't turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride.

Share your love, share your happiness; you will be rich and a great success.

Life is a time bound journey to experience the excitement of love, joy, and happiness.

I think now that this is the great division between people. There are people who find life hard and those who find it easy. There are those who have a natural, in-built, expectation of happiness, and there are those who feel that happiness is not to be expected: that it is not, in fact, one of the rights of man. Nor, God knows, one of the rights of women.

Our life is a journey toward happiness.

Sometimes we take leaps of faith, and sometimes we take tiny steps. Even the tiniest step can require a lot of courage. Like climbing out of denial and admitting my real need for help. Like trusting someone who said I wouldn’t die from eating a bowl of pasta, and taking another bite. Like reaching for a pen or a yoga mat when what I really wanted to do was reach for a cookie. Like searching for a smile in my heart when my mind was busy screaming about how sad and serious I should be.

Religion often has conflict with science but spirituality is a science.

If I'd defined success very narrowly, limiting it to peak, high-visibility experiences, I would have felt very unsuccessful and unhappy during those years. Life is just a lot better if you feel you're having 10 wins a day rather than a win every 10 years or so.

The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision

The fragrance of meditation is enlightenment.

Every moment is a moment of hope, moment of beauty, a moment of joy and it is our life.

Happiness will never flourish in a life bereft of optimism.

Schedule happy experiences to displace unhappy memories.

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

The relationship you take for granted is the one that needs the greatest work.

Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.

Any education that doesn't allow you to think freely is not an education but a prison.

Joy is innermost peace.

Some people pray for miracles ... with Cosmic Ordering YOU manifest them!

Without dreams, the future will remain mediocre. Stay inspired though your dreams.

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment.

I love the serenity as a tree loves its calmness.

In this vast universe when I was getting lost, you made me infinite with infinite love.

There's a thread that binds all of us together pull one end of the thread the strain is felt all down the line.

-Paint-My girlfriend is so besotted that she can't take her eyes off me. After we've turned out the light she puts on her night-vision goggles, and watched me as I sleep. Quite often I am woken by her sighing and involuntary yelps of happiness. This has been going on for years, and is showing no sign of abating. Once I asked her to stop all this infra-red activity, but it didn't really work; I'd wake up to find her covering me in luminous paint, and softly whispering, 'Sometimes I wonder if you know how much I love you.

May you find grace to live zealous life.

Every day is a part of life, so make it special.

What inspires you to do what you do is the reason why you persist, even in the face of trouble.

No, you pessimistic fool, I am saying that if we can find it in ourselves to be miserable even when things are actually pretty good then there should be no difficulty being happy even when there is gloom and doom all around us.

Love dances with joy in your smile.

We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.