Quotes on Happy Life

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Because there is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving. And yet, just a fraction of what is expended so obscenely on defense budgets would make the difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated, and given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Move forward and let others do the same. Simple. This is a guiding principle everyone should have.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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

Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.

The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.