Quotes Tagged "happiness"

Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.

When it can be said by any country in the world, my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them, my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars, the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive, the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of happiness. When these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and government. Independence is my happiness, the world is my country and my religion is to do good.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?” “There are different kinds of happy,” she said. “Some kinds don’t need any proof.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.

Even in Siberia there is happiness.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.