Quotes Tagged "happiness"

I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less easily moved, more resolute and steadfast. I am no longer in pursuit of happiness. As I stand here at my front door, key in hand, I think it is just possible that happiness, at least for now, today, this hour, may be in pursuit of me.

Why do I want to run from happiness?

If you love a person, you should show it in adundance, not reserve it for special occasions like fine china.

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss That world affords or grows by kind. Though much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.

I wished upon a star and the heavens sent me you

Comparison is the thief of joy.

I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, more so than I do in the reality that surrounds me.

Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.

In my judgment, the woman is the equal of the man. She has all the rights I have and one more, and that is the right to be protected. That is my doctrine. You are married; try and make the woman you love happy. Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says 'I will make her happy,' makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, 'I will make him happy.' There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so.

If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.

The key to happiness - or that even more desired thing, calmness - lies not in always thinking happy thoughts. No. That is impossible. No mind on earth with any kind of intelligence could spend a lifetime enjoying only happy thoughts. They key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don't become them. Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person.

If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.

Be like a branch of a tree; flex your body to face 'wind of sorrow'; flex little harder to dance in the 'wind of happiness'.

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks

Maybe Shakespeare was right. Maybe all the world was a stage. Maybe without the act everything would fall apart. The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.

Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.