Best 1610 quotes in «happy quotes» category

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

Some days are simply meant for playing.

Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.

Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate... Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

The best motivation for anyone-including employees-is to hear or see our name as often and in as many places as possible. Our name is the most potent sound we can hear and see. If you want to motivate someone put their name up in lights and/or sing it from the rooftops!

The best way to keep relationships happy, healthy, and supportive can be summed up in one word: appreciation. What you appreciate, appreciates. When we demonstrate our appreciation for the support we receive from others, it reinforces that behavior and deepens our connection to them.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when... When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job. When I get the relationship,’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

One of the bonuses about loving yourself is that you get to feel good.

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger - the greatest threat to our inner peace, and therefore our happiness. The mind, or spirit, is not physical, it cannot be touched or harmed directly. Only negative thoughts and emotions can harm it. Therefore, only the corresponding positive quality can protect it.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

There are no happier people on this planet than those who decide that they want something, define what they want, get hold of the feeling of it even before its manifestation and then joyously watch the unfolding as, piece by piece by piece, it begins to unfold. That's the feeling of your hands in the clay.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area.

There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, - that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

There's a brief moment when you first wake up, where you have no memories. A blissful blank slate, a happy emptiness.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

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

The value of a smile... It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living. Man cannot be happy for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. If man is exiled constantly from his own home, locked out of his spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.

Thoughts Become Things... Choose The Good Ones!