So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. 636
First and foremost, you’ve got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you’re after truth, happiness always comes. 631
It’s up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you’re not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can’t rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you. 1.46K
And perfect happiness? Man, that’s a… the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm. 2.3K
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. 705
I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change. 696
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. 702
The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies. 666
What if I couldn’t handle people’s opinions of me? I know that shouldn’t dictate a person’s degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment. 1.84K
Aye, I’m tellin’ ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else. 669
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. 2.15K
The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness. 2.44K
Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. 691
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. 2.51K
I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it. 878
Happiness is such a good state, it doesn’t need to be creative. You’re not creative from happiness, you’re just happy. You’re creative when you’re miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform. 2.28K
