Best 227 quotes in «being happy quotes» category

In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved.

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

I think it's a mistake if people just fall in love and think that that's the only thing you need to keep you happy. There's a lot more to being with someone than just love.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.

I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed even by the most uncomfortable circumstances. If you nurse hatred, however, you will not be happy even in the lap of luxury. Thus, if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love. This is both religious thinking and basic common sense.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy.

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happy being in my house, I love cooking.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.

Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are people that are fully engaged in the world around them. The most fulfilled people are the ones who get up every morning and stand for something larger than themselves. They are the people who care about others, who will extend a helping hand to someone in need or will speak up about an injustice when they see it.

The greatest gift that one human being can give another is unconditional love. It's the only thing, ultimately, that really matters.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.