Quotes on Key To Happiness

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

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Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e., seeking wealth or attractiveness or better colleagues, which is usually impractical), but in our daily intentional activities.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

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

I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

There is no key to happiness; the door is always open