Quotes Tagged "happiness"

A week feels like a year when you’re seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.

ولمّا فتحت قلبي لكي ارى السعادة, وجدت مرآتها وسريرها وملابسها, لكنّي لم اجدها.

And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has.

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

Suffering sucks. Don't do it. Go home and love your wife. Go home and love yourself. Go home and base your happiness on one thing and one thing only: freedom. Choose freedom, not suffering. Create a life of freedom, not wanting. Have some really good coffee and listen to the red-winged blackbirds in the marsh. Ignore the mosquitoes.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

You are the point of origin for everything in your world: you set the standard for yourself.

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Happiness is not in things; happiness is in you.

We need more than just the Law of Attraction. We need to connect with its more successful twin, the Law of Generosity. And further entwine ourselves with their parent; the Law of Love.

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.

The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally.

True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.

If one’s life is so unsatisfying that an unhealthy activity brings a shred of happiness, it is nigh impossible to give it up unless something that brings greater happiness can be enjoyed in its stead. (28)