Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces.
Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥
I get way too much happiness from good food.
All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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