Happiness - Quotes
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.
The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I`ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
I`m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I`m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy`s fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, begging for pennies from every passerby, unaware that his fortune was right under him the whole time. Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.
It`s so hard to forget pain, but it`s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness.
Happiness is [...] Having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family; especially if they live in another city.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.