Quotes Tagged "happiness"

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.

Challenges in life can either enrich you or poison you. You are the one who decides.

Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing.

She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

His hand lay across my stomach as he slept soundly. I entwined my fingers with his and breathed through the warmth that seeped through my chest. Such a simple, sweet thing to do, yet holding hands in bed was incredibly intimate.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

You would not be here TODAY if YESTERDAY was your defining moment. LIVE THIS DAY and move towards your dreams.

The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.

To fill the hour──that is happiness.

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don’t, you will leak away your innate contentment. It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.

I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you. This is where I disagree with the philosophers. They talk about passionate things but there is no passion in them. Never talk happiness with a philosopher.

You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.