Quotes Tagged "happiness"

There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

We each sell alittle piece of happiness. You are elevating someone's spirit in some way, and to do that you have to understand the source of their angst and then you have to frame your product as a solution.

A sense of peace came over me and I must have been smiling as I fell asleep.

Health, wealth, happiness, live long and always prosper, have families and also friends, let them be lasting in me forever.

The golden rule of business is supply and demand. I venture to say that this is also the rule of happiness. When a balance is achieved between our desires and another's willingness to satisfy them, the result is a sympathetic, mutually rewarding relationship. (...) a thriving economy of love.' - character Mike Lambeth

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

…feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.

I am happy and content because I think I am.

May I nurture the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can change and wisdom to know the difference

Don't look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so.

The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.

Each to their own reality

It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there.

When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.

Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.

It might be true that it is “quality time” that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air and kiss the sun and stars with my singing heart. I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with grandest company.