Quotes on Life Happiness

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

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

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

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.

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

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.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

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

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

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

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

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

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.

True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is mans innate nature that he seeks to preserve and to strengthen his life, that he is discontented and aims at removing uneasiness, that he is in search of what may be called happiness.

Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige,_x000D_ or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on_x000D_ academic abilities, ignoring the emotional intelligence that also_x000D_ matters immensely for our personal destiny.