Quotes Tagged "happiness"

Dear God, You’ve reached your hands out to me many times, and you don’t let go. You surround my life, and guide each move I make, and the words I write. My prayers have been answered many times and I’m grateful beyond words. My most powerful prayer dear God, is you bless the young people in our family with wonderful health, free from disease of any kind. I ask dear God that you look over them, and their total well-being. If there’s a path they must go down that’s dark, make it a path of learning, so they return healthy and wiser, and never walk that path again. Please place happiness in their heart, so they can find you in everything they do throughout their life. In Jesus name, amen.

but to succeed we must commit to it, we must believe that it is the thing for us, it is where our happiness and fortune lies.

Creating the dream is living the dream, and constantly being able to take one more step, even when that step looks too difficult to take, even when we think we may fall too far, or too hard, even when we know it'll mean going against the convention of what the people around us are doing, taking one more step keeps us creating the dream, which in essence is living the dream.

I believe happiness itself is found in accepting, even dwelling in, what we fail to excel at.

Though our path may not always feel easy, it’s the one we’re on, so we may as well find as much joy as we can within it, and there is usually something to enjoy if we look hard enough. We often postpone enjoying what we have right now because of an idea that enjoyment lies in the future. The thing is, once we place our happiness in the future, that’s where happiness stays; we’ll always be chasing happiness without ever managing to catch it. Happiness is right here—right in front of us. And if we continually miss it by resisting it . . . fighting it . . . or reducing it to a means—to an end—then we’re not only disconnecting from the fullness of this moment—but, ultimately, we’ll miss the essence of our life! The future never actually arrives—it’s always the present moment. And if we don’t learn to be happy with it, happiness may always feel out of reach—so look a little closer. As Walt Whitman said, 'Happiness—not in another place, but this place . . . not for another hour, but this hour.

I told mom that she was confusing happiness with pleasure. That's common today. A trip to the video arcade may be a source of pleasure, but it will not give lasting and enduring happiness. This mother's son derives pleasure from playing video games, but playing video games in an online world is unlikely to be a source of real fulfillment. The pleasure derived from a video game may last for weeks or even months. But it will not last many years, in my firsthand observation Of many young men over the past two decades. The boy either moves on to something else, or the happiness undergoes a silent and malignant transformation into addiction. The hallmark of addiction is decreasing pleasure over time. Tolerance develops. Playing the game becomes compulsive, almost involuntary. It no longer gives the thrill and pleasure it once did. But the addict can no longer find pleasure in anything else. Pleasure is not the same thing as happiness. The gratification Of desire yields pleasure, not lasting happiness. Happiness comes from fulfillment, from living up to your potential, which means more than playing online video games.

Though our path may not always feel easy, it’s the one we’re on, so we may as well find as much joy as we can within it, and there is usually something to enjoy if we look hard enough. We often postpone enjoying what we have right now because of an idea that enjoyment lies in the future. The thing is, once we place our happiness in the future, that’s where happiness stays; we’ll always be chasing happiness without ever managing to catch it. Happiness is right here—right in front of us. And if we continually miss it by resisting it . . . fighting it . . . or reducing it to a means—to an end—then we’re not only disconnecting from the fullness of this moment—but, ultimately, we’ll miss the essence of our life! The future never actually arrives—it’s always the present moment. And if we don’t learn to be happy with it, happiness may always feel out of reach—so look a little closer. As Walt Whitman said, “Happiness—not in another place, but this place . . . not for another hour, but this hour.

Your happiness is my concern, and you may be certain that in it I shall find my own.

Let your shoes take you to where your happiness grows.

If life is a cup of tea, gratitude is the honey that makes it sweet.

Our purpose in life leads us to happiness and a sense of calm.

Happiness isn't possible without freedom.

There is no happiness without honesty. If you're seeking happiness, start by being totally honest.

Ndoa isipokuwa na furaha itaitafuta pengine.

The only way to bring peace and happiness is from within.

When you are at peace with yourself, All desirable things will come to you.

There is a field of study called “happiness research,” which tries to analyze what makes people happy. Prof. Michael Hagerty of the University of California at Davis surveyed decades of international happiness research and found that “for the most part, the top-rated countries are small and homogeneous.” As he explained, such countries “have a similar world view and a similar religion, so that it’s easier for them to communicate and to understand each other’s motives.” He also noted that “they don’t have race problems.” In the conclusion of his 148-country diversity survey Tatu Vanhanen wrote, “It is easier to establish harmonious social relations in ethnically homogeneous societies than in ethnically divided ones because people are more helpful towards each other in ethnically homogeneous societies.” There can, of course, be many different kinds of division in a country: language, religion, race, class, etc. However, of all these, race seems to be the most difficult to bridge.

I remind myself if happiness is fleeting, then so is sadness. I remind myself depression is the weather, and I'm a weather-worn tree. I remind myself even the worst storms pass. I remind myself I've survived them all.

At least now I knew that my heart was wedded to the mountains--to the wild places. It was there, and there alone, that I was whole, contented, and blissful. No relationship, career, or wealth could ever take its place.

...nobody owes you anything, so when you get something, be appreciative.