Quotes on Happiness: Find Joy in Every Day - Page 51

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You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.
- Frederick Lenz
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Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're miserable, nothing is working in life, it doesn't matter. Smile anyway.
- Frederick Lenz
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When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.
- Frederick Lenz
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Smile sometimes when things aren't going well, and maybe realize when they aren't going well, they are.
- Frederick Lenz
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Pain and frustration vanish in the sunlight of your smile.
- Frederick Lenz
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It is is easy to smile. It is an act of self-giving. When you smile you are at your best and you give that best to others.
- Frederick Lenz
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Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
- Euripides
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Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
- Euripides
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
- Alexandre Dumas
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Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family. When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
- Albert Einstein
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Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.
- Frederick Lenz
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Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.
- Frederick Lenz
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Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.
- Frederick Lenz
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Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.
- Frederick Lenz
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Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are ten thousand states of mind.
- Frederick Lenz
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Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is like focusing on happiness for several hours as you are walking around.
- Frederick Lenz
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Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience passes, the happiness passes.
- Frederick Lenz
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The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?
- Frederick Lenz
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The rich aren't happy so they try and get richer thinking it will make a difference. The poor aren't happy. They try and get rich thinking that will make a difference.
- Frederick Lenz
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How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.
- Frederick Lenz
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Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time. Take it from the Zen Master. He knows.
- Frederick Lenz
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Power doesn't make you happy. Actually, power without knowledge and balance is problematic. Power is something that will automatically follow when you have knowledge. The two are really the same, in a certain sense.
- Frederick Lenz
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You don't have to take drugs to be happy. You don't have to drink to be happy. You don't have to have people around you who love you to be happy. You don't need anything except the clarity of your own mind.
- Frederick Lenz
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If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.
- Frederick Lenz
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If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.
- Frederick Lenz
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If we immerse ourselves in the ultimate good, we will have this silly smile on our face or perhaps just inside our hearts. That is what illumination is.
- Frederick Lenz
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Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?
- Tim Ferriss
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Account no man happy till he dies.
- Euripides
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Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.
- Diane Arbus
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Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.
- Frederick Lenz
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Arrange photographs of nature scenes, animals and expressions of joy and love in your environment and let their energy radiate into your heart and provide you with their higher frequency.
- Wayne Dyer
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Image of John Dryden
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
- John Dryden
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Image of Albert Einstein
Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
- Albert Einstein
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New happiness too must be learned to bear.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts
- Benjamin Disraeli
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There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive.
- Malcolm Forbes
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
- Alexandre Dumas
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Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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A combination of all that was best in the gladdest days of the departing year.
- Shelby Foote
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It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.
- M. F. K. Fisher
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Life is not a malfunction. It's beautiful. But if you do not see it that way, it's simply because your room needs cleaning.
- Frederick Lenz
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Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate. Meditation is a process of speeding up the vibration.
- Frederick Lenz
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People don't really want to be happy. They go out of their way to be miserable.
- Frederick Lenz
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How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that.
- Frederick Lenz
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Happiness is warm puppy. In other words, happiness is the things around you. Just to see that puppy is to be happy. You don't have to do anything; you don't have to add anything.
- Frederick Lenz
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Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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