If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.
Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.
When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.
Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.
I’m happily married. I’ve got more than enough to eat at home.
I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
You may think that if someone else doesn't change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what.
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Dear young people, Jesus gives us life, life in abundance. If we are close to him we will have joy in our hearts and a smile on our face.
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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