Quotes on Happiness: Find Joy in Every Day - Page 40

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Image of Goswami Kriyananda
We've got to be long distance runners on the spiritual path. We want to run as fast as we can, but at the same time realize that if God isn't at the end of that 100 yards, we don't fall flat of exhaustion. We've got to have whatever rhythm it takes to be able to go on for incarnations until we find that state of perfection we've been seeking.
- Goswami Kriyananda
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Image of Goswami Kriyananda
Happiness is a smile of comfort to the sorrowful.
- Goswami Kriyananda
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Image of Jose Saramago
We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.
- Jose Saramago
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Image of Pindar
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
- Pindar
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Image of Nathaniel Branden
Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender -not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
- Nathaniel Branden
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Image of Oprah Winfrey
Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
- Oprah Winfrey
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Image of Ovid
A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.
- Ovid
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Image of Harold B. Lee
How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter. Sexual purity is youth's most precious possession. It is the foundation of all righteousness.
- Harold B. Lee
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Image of Edith Wharton
What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.
- Edith Wharton
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Image of Albert Schweitzer
The only ones who will find real happiness are those who find a way to serve
- Albert Schweitzer
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Image of Alexander Pope
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
- Alexander Pope
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Image of Anne Bradstreet
I happy am, if well with you.
- Anne Bradstreet
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Image of Peggy Orenstein
And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.
- Peggy Orenstein
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Image of Flannery O'Connor
I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas.
- Flannery O'Connor
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Image of Spencer W. Kimball
Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.
- Spencer W. Kimball
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Image of E. B. White
Home was quite a place when people stayed there.
- E. B. White
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Image of Helen Fisher
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.
- Helen Fisher
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Image of Rajneesh
If life is a gift then all that belongs to life is going to be a gift. Happiness, love, meditation - all that is beautiful is going to be a gift from the holy, from the whole. You cannot deserve it in any way and you cannot force existence to make you happy, or to make you loving, or to make you meditative. That very effort is of the ego. That very effort creates misery. That very effort goes against you. That very effort has destroyed you - it is suicidal.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Bertolt Brecht
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
- Bertolt Brecht
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Image of Seneca the Younger
A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
- Seneca the Younger
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Image of Mark Twain
Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Aeschylus
Call no man happy till he is dead.
- Aeschylus
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Image of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Image of A. C. Benson
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
- A. C. Benson
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Image of John Milton
Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.
- John Milton
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Image of Rajneesh
All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned, and there are people who remain miserable even when they are living in marble palaces. It all depends on you.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Mark Twain
I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Ayn Rand
I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Stefan Zweig
States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.
- Stefan Zweig
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Image of Rajneesh
Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Oprah Winfrey
I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home.
- Oprah Winfrey
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Image of Esther Hicks
The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy. Most of you say, 'When I get that I will be joyful.' And we say, until you are joyful, you will not get that. You must start with the decision-with the determination-with the insistence that, 'I will not settle for less than feeling good.'
- Esther Hicks
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Image of Esther Hicks
I'm going to be happy. I'm going to skip. I'm going to be glad. I'm going to be easy. I'm going to count my blessings. I'm going to look for reasons to feel good. I'm going to dig up positive things from the past. I'm going to look for positive things where I stand. I'm going to look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It's natural for me to love and to laugh. This is what is most natural for me. I am a happy person.
- Esther Hicks
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Image of Esther Hicks
You're always on your way somewhere. The key is: find a way to be happy wherever you now are on your way to where you really want to be. (We're speaking of the state of being you want.) It does not matter where you are; where you are is shifting constantly - but you must turn your attention to where you want to go. And that's the difference between making the best of something and making the worst of something.
- Esther Hicks
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Image of Edward Young
The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
- Edward Young
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Image of Florence Scovel Shinn
You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.
- Florence Scovel Shinn
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Image of Theodore Roosevelt
From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.
- Theodore Roosevelt
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Image of Zig Ziglar
The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.
- Zig Ziglar
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Image of Moliere
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
- Moliere
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Image of Marquis de Sade
The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
- Marquis de Sade
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Image of Marquis de Sade
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
- Marquis de Sade
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Joko Beck
We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life.
- Joko Beck
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Image of Georgia O'Keeffe
Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
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Image of Jonathan Swift
So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
- Jonathan Swift
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Image of Ludwig van Beethoven
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
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Image of Ludwig van Beethoven
Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
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