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They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it has to be there. Some of them understand why, and some do not, but they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendships, the health of their children, the wisdom of their scholars, the skill of their makers, even the abundance of their harvest and the kindly weathers of their skies, depend wholly on this child's abominable misery.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
The best days in the life of any person are the days of joy
— Sunday Adelaja
They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into thedarkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas: A Story
...nothing is more dangerous than solitude: there our imagination, always disposed to rise, taking a new flight on the wings of fancy, pictures to us a chain of beings of whom we seem the most inferior. All things appear greater than they really are, and all seem superior to us. This operation of the mind is quite natural: we so continually feel our own imperfections, and fancy we perceive in others the qualities we do not possess, attributing to them also all that we enjoy ourselves, that by this process we form the idea of a perfect, happy man,—a man, however, who only exists in our own imagination.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Miracles happen when dreamers take action.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
Don’t you dare focus your energy on the 99 reasons something can’t be done. Focus on the one thing you can do and the 99 won’t matter.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
Dreamers Can.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
The world is yours the moment you follow your own dreams.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
Dreams grow bigger and bolder every time you nourish them.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
A thought enters your brain and lasts an average of five seconds. The only way to keep it is to grab hold of it and claim it. The same applies to dreams. We forget most of our dreams because we never take the actions needed to make them our own.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
Humility and Dignity had a daughter, called Arrogance, who was ashamed of her name and used to hide behind Pride. But Pride was in love with Truth, therefore arrogance married Illusion and forever despised Truth. Pride and Truth had a daughter, called Happiness, while Arrogance and Illusion had a son, called Despair. When both meet, one of them cries.
— Robin Sacredfire
Think good for yourself ,good will follow you.when you think good for others ,happiness will follow you and when happiness follows you, people will follow you.
— irrfan ishaq
Happiness is just like a glacier-the visible one eighth tip sitting on seven eighth mass of pain and suffering under the surface
— Shahid H. Raja
As far as I’m concerned, eighteen holes of golf is the only happiness that money can buy. - Momofuku Ando
— Andy Raskin
If you do not have Joy, there will be nothing for you to remember
— Sunday Adelaja
Happiness does not mean being free from problems and trials, but finding purpose in problems and trials can result in abundant happiness.
— Hank Smith
Happily ever after doesn’t just happen because you’ve found the love of your life. Happiness is a personal choice.
— Tracie Sage, The Missing Manual to Love, Marriage and Intimacy: A Proactive Path to Happily Ever After
What if Happily Ever After is a path you can choose and not The End?
— Tracie Sage, The Missing Manual to Love, Marriage and Intimacy: A Proactive Path to Happily Ever After
When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess.
— Roman Payne, The Wanderess
What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.
— Roman Payne, The Wanderess
Happiness is a delightful heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
Just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work.What might look like the perfect life - or even an okay life - to you might not be so okay for the person living it.
— Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes
They said she could not do it. But she didn’t listen so when she did it. And when they stood in awe, she did not hear their applause. The only validation she needed came from the voice inside her head. The voice that had always been there saying, “You got this.
— Toni Sorenson
People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
— Søren Kierkegaard
You are wrong if you think you cannot live without love, Edith.''No, I am not,' she said, slowly. 'I cannot live without it. Oh, I do not mean that I go into a decline, develop odd symptoms, become a caricature. I mean something far more serious than that. I mean that I cannot live well without it. I cannot think or act or speak or write or even dream with any kind of energy in the absence of love. I feel excluded from the living world. I become cold, fish-like, immobile. I implode. My idea of absolute happiness is to sit in a hot garden all day, reading or writing, utterly safe in the knowledge that the person I love will come home to me in the evening. Every evening.''You are a romantic, Edith,' repeated Mr Neville, with a smile.'It is you who are wrong,' she replied. 'I have been listening to that particular accusation for most of my life. I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. A game of cards. Time for idle talk. Preparing a meal together.
— Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
Life is the night skyAll the dots of stars are happiness
— Richard L.  Ratliff
If I could bottle this exact feeling I have right now, and sell it, I'd make millions." I said to Chet"Well, unfortunately for you, but luckily for every other adult, someone already has. They called it alcohol.
— Keith Buckley, Scale: A Novel
The self is a subjective entity created by our thoughts and deeds. All sense of happiness and emotional wellbeing turns upon how a person organizes their stream of consciousness into a creation and development of a positive or negative self-image.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen.
— Marcy Dermansky, The Red Car
We each own our own happiness.My contentment is no one else’s responsibility.My joy is mine to protect and nourish.If we are incapable of reaching inward and embracing that which makes us happy, then perhaps we don’t deserve it. But if we find our joy, we should be diligent to pursue it, cultivate it and share it.
— LaShawnda Jones
Families are so beautiful. Wherever we may be, looking at kids and happy families make us feel like home.
— Avijeet Das
Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting untouched—just as a determination not to know serves the maker more than all the resources of clairvoyance—so there must be a minimum of ignorance in order to perfect a life in happiness. Thosewho lack such a thing must set about acquiring it: unintelligence must be earned.
— Albert Camus, A Happy Death
Actually, before creating a family, it is necessary for a person to be already happy
— Sunday Adelaja
Scrub your brain of any thoughts that don’t serve you, and to fill your mind with fresh, clean thinking that instills confidence, commitment, and ultimate success.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
— Chuck Bridges
A dark thought will never lead you to the light because darkness is terrified of light.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
The more happiness you put out into the world, the more will find its way back to you. If I can make one person’s day better because of my actions, it’s been a good day for everyone
— If I Wake
The greatest gift of life is being wealthy with happiness.
— Aloysius Jnr
When God said 'Let there be light'.May be he meant it Inside.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
No hay felicidad más grande que la que sientes al ayudar a los demás.
— Maya Benmergui
Жаль того глупца, кто видит жизнь как войну. Отвоевывать что-либо, а тем более счастье, бессмысленно. Драгоценный камень, добытый борьбой, превратится в кусок обычной глины. Счастье не находят, его создают
— Эльчин Сафарли
In a relationship, prudent application of the gray theory is a key ingredient in assuring years of happiness; “till death do us part”. Balance is at the center of success, satisfaction and a lifetime of love.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Only you are responsible for your life and for your life and making it a happy life
— Sunday Adelaja
there are signs to find ,understand person who is in love _ in little of sickness or in little success ,or failure ,their eyes ,and heart looks for their lovers .this is for both ,to understand depth of human relationship is so strong bonded .
— litymunshi
there are signs to find ,understand person who is in love _ in little of sickness or in little success ,or failure ,their eyes ,and heart looks for their lovers .this is for both ,to understand depth of human relationship.which is so strong bonded .
— litymunshi
Live with God, have faith in God – it is true happiness
— Sunday Adelaja
No matter what each day brings -- the trials and tribulations that may cross my path, the turmoil, the ugliness -- when I look at this picture I'm reminded that life is precious and there is still beauty in this world.
— Ryan Troske, The Rising
When a soothing wind blows gently love through the thistledown of expectations, hope may inveigle the future for timeless care and tenderness to be anchored in a bay of good luck. ("Happiness blowing in the wind" )
— Erik Pevernagie
Beauty is not a warrant for wellbeing and so does happiness not hinge on social success, but is only tangible via intricate, meandering discovery journeys in the mind. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")
— Erik Pevernagie
I don't trust anybody who isn't a little bit neurotic
— Mohadesa Najumi
Life is a useless passion, an exciting journey of a mammal in survival mode. Each day is a miracle, a blessing unexplored and the more you immerse yourself in light, the less you will feel the darkness. There is more to life than nothingness. And cynicism. And nihilism. And selfishness. And glorious isolation. Be selfish with yourself, but live your life through your immortal acts, acts that engrain your legacy onto humanity. Transcend your fears and follow yourself into the void instead of letting yourself get eaten up by entropy and decay. Freedom is being yourself without permission. Be soft and leave a lasting impression on everybody you meet
— Mohadesa Najumi
Your fear of becoming a cliche is what turns you into one. If you remove the fear, we are all really walking contradictions, hypocrites and paradoxical cliches
— Mohadesa Najumi
But that wasn't what happened. What happened was they drove to Harry's and parked the Camaro next to an Audi and a Lexus and Gansey ordered flavors of gelato until the table wouldn't hold anymore and Ronan convinced the staff to turn the overhead speakers up and Blue laughed for the first time at something Gansey said and they were loud and triumphant and kings of Henrietta, because they'd found the ley line and because it was starting, it was starting.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
You are not always right. It’s not always about being right. The best thing you can offer others is understanding. Being an active listener is about more than just listening, it is about reciprocating and being receptive to somebody else. Everybody has woes. Nobody is safe from pain. However, we all suffer in different ways. So learn to adapt to each person, know your audience and reserve yourself for people who have earned the depths of you
— Mohadesa Najumi
She quite liked this aspect of her personality, the way her mood could change from melancholy to euphoric because of a breeze or a flavor or a beautiful chord progression. It meant she never had to feel too down about feeling down.
— Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty
I am a habitual rule-breaker
— Mohadesa Najumi
Vulnerability is the least celebrated emotion in our society
— Mohadesa Najumi
You can never catch real happiness without making others happy!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Happiness is the purpose of humans so it must need to be for the good of others otherwise one’s happiness could hurt many others.
— Zaman Ali, Humanity
I have been at war with parts of myself for so long
— Mohadesa Najumi
There might not be a measure of happiness left in a life, but there could be beauty and grace and endless love.
— Peter Heller, Celine
Happiness is the sense that my life is good because my biological needs are being met. Meaning is the sense that my life is significant because it has met the needs of another. Happiness bestows the feeling that I am whole. Meaning bestows the feeling that I matter and am valued. Happiness is an event, and meaning is a state. Happiness is the means to an end; meaning is an end in itself. Happiness fades; meaning accumulates.
— James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
All my life I have heard the term happiness thrown around like a buzzword as if it is something to be gained. As I have previously expressed, I do not view happiness as a tangible thing. To me happinesss is the elimination of accumulated darkness. Self-sustaining happiness comes from contentment of acceptance, compassion and sympathetic joy, qualities which cannot be developed like a muscle, but rather they must be actualized by the removal of fetters in the mind
— Mohadesa Najumi
Because I did not understand the difference between meaning and happiness, I did not appreciate that life could be meaningful without being happy. I didn’t understand that meaning and happiness are occasionally opposed, such that the self-sacrifice that yields meaning may come at the cost of the very things on which happiness most depends. I erroneously assumed that if I were unhappy then my life lacked significance.
— James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
Faith is not to believe Or pray that Providence Will help a chieve Anything we want, But to liv eWith confidence That God will do for us Everything we need.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
A Happiness key: Maintain something to be enthusiastic about. Small/frequent goals = Dopamine hits that propel success.
— Steve Maraboli
Attachment and Expectations are the two biggest killer elements of happiness in everyone's life.Learn the art to monitor and control these killers to bring happiness back in your LIFE!!!
— Santosh Adbhut Kumar
I take it as a compliment when somebody calls me crazy. I would be offended if I was one of the sheeple, one of the sleepwalkers in the matrix or part of the collective hallucination we call 'normal
— Mohadesa Najumi
Eleven reasons you want to become a robot: 1. Robots are logical and know their purpose.2. Robots have programming they understand.3. Robots are not held to unattainable standards and then criticized when they fail.4. Robots are not crippled by emotions they don't know how to process.5. Robots are not judged based on what sex organs they were born with.6. Robots have mechanical bodies that are strong and durable. They are not required to have sex.7. Robots do not feel guilt (about existing, about failing, about being something other than expected).8. Robots can multitask.9. Robots do not feel unsafe all the time.10. Robots are perfect machines that are capable and functional and can be fixed if something breaks.11. Robots are happy.
— A. Merc Rustad, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015
Thoroughly selfish individuals can be entirely happy. They will be unlikely to find life very meaningful. To such individuals, meaning often seems accidental, coincidental, or tangential … The reason this is so is that selfish people will find life meaningful only when they are not themselves; when they forget their selfish desires and act in a manner more consistent with agape (selfless love). Meaning seems accidental, coincidental or tangential to their lives because, by and large, selflessness is accidental, coincidental and tangential to their lives. There is nothing unpredictable about meaning, only the presence of selflessness in the life of a selfish person.
— James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
The major dilemma in life arises when it is assumed that meaning is simply a greater degree of happiness, such that the more one indulges physiological needs, the more likely it is that life will be experienced as meaningful.
— James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
Happiness is true, even though it fades, and meaning is also true, despite the fact that it endures. Those experiences that define what it most means to be human are true not because they endure, they are true because they are meaningful. Being human is not about being happy, not because happiness fades, but because the apex of the human experience is not happiness but meaning. Meaning endures not because it is true but because it is not dependent on circumstance. Happiness is transient not because it is false but precisely because it is dependent on circumstance. Each emotional experience is true in its proper domain. What makes one fleeting and the other lasting is not truth but the fact that one belongs to the temporal and the other to the eternal.
— James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
A man came to Budha and said, "I want happiness". Budha replied" Remove 'I", its your ego,Remove "want" its you source of misery, Now you are left with "happiness".
— DrDLN
Happiness fades by design, precisely because it’s a means to an end, not an end in itself. We continually need to meet our psychological, emotional, and physical needs to remain healthy. If one meal were enough to provide lasting happiness, we would slowly starve to death afterward … Consequently, there’s a limit to our happiness, which is defined by the amount required to satisfy a biological need. Exceed this amount, and the result isn’t more happiness but the discomfort and disease that follow from overindulgence. While some may be good, more isn’t necessarily better, and too much of a good thing can be a bad thing.
— James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
Many of us humans have a hard time with understanding one simple truth: the surest way to get love is to start giving love to others. Often, when we desperately need some companionship, understanding and warmth from those who are around us, we chose to blame, shout, criticize, accuse, insult and set ultimatums. But in reply, we only encounter with cold walls of estrangement which was diligently built by our own efforts, farcical walls and fences.
— Sahara Sanders, INDIGO DIARIES: A Series of Novels
Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. - Wollof
— Joseph Lallo
Unfortunately, wisdom and happiness are old enemies, and where one can be found, the other seldom lingers. - Wolloff
— Joseph R. Lallo, The Book of Deacon
In the architecture of their life some may display Potemkin happiness in view of hiding the dark features of their fair weather relationship, preferring to set up a window dressing of fake satisfaction rather than being rejected as emotional outcasts. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")
— Erik Pevernagie
He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.
— Roman Payne
The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.
— Auliq-Ice
Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion.
— Auliq-Ice
Happiness is not a destination. It cannot be bought, sold or traded. Happiness is the gift of the journey.
— Lisa Cypers Kamen, Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life
We sat talking on a rock. The air was filled with the tang of sea-weed and of something else that could only have been the ocean smell. I felt so happy that I wasn't even afraid it wouldn't last.
— Tove Jansson, Moominpappa's Memoirs
There is a whole world out there waiting to have fun. Show them how it's done!
— Gary Rudz
Open your eyesOpen your earsOpen your mindOpen your heartThey are your portals to joy
— Lisa Cypers Kamen, Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life
Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living.
— Auliq-Ice
Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.
— Compton Gage
Gratitude is a miracle of its own recognition. It brings out a sense of appreciation and sincerity of a being.
— Auliq-Ice
Happiness waits for no one.
— Lisa Cypers Kamen, Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life
The achievement of a happy life is not only positively good for us, it is constructively good for those around us.
— Lisa Cypers Kamen, Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life
Authentic happiness is not selfish, egotistical or narcissistic, in fact, it is essential in order for humankind to thrive
— Lisa Cypers Kamen, Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life
Happiness is being at home your own skin and being able to occupy your life.
— Lisa Cypers Kamen, Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life
Sustainable happiness is important, because it not only elevate our own wellbeing locally, but also contributes to collective global flourishing.
— Lisa Cypers Kamen, Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life
For the grateful, there is no room for disappointment; Each moment offers life.
— Auliq-Ice
Happiness will never invite you to the party. Happiness simply comes down to a choice to show up each and every day on the world with passion, purpose, place and meaning.
— Lisa Cypers Kamen, Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life
They that be born in the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb fail, are otherwise.
— Compton Gage
Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draw now nigh unto age.
— Compton Gage
Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.
— Compton Gage
What betrayed me? Was it my heart? Or my Soul?
— Compton Gage
You do not love me
—  you love my success!
HAPPINESS is something when you stop overthinking everything. Let all flow
— Diadjeng Laraswati H
Do everything which could make you happy
— Diadjeng Laraswati H
Stop seeking their approval and validation. The only opinion that should and will ever matter is your own, nobody else deserves to have that much control over the outcome of your life. Do what makes you happy, fearlessly.
— Keysha Jade, Major Awakening
Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.
— Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
Since I can remember, for some reason, I was always “not like others,” and it was presented by everyone like there was something wrong with me; only becoming more grown up and mature, I realized that to be special and different from the crowd is my biggest value and happiness.
— Sahara Sanders, INDIGO DIARIES: A Series of Novels
Holiness doesn’t demand denial of happiness, only selfishness. Where unhappiness exists in a relationship, I would submit that such isn’t the price of holiness but a sign of sin. It is an indication that one or both partners is holding to the wrong value system, that of self-love. When husbands and wives love each other with agape, they meet the deepest needs God designed to be met in the very manner He intended. The result is a joy that is complete and a relationship where happiness is the fruit of holiness and meaning is the consequence of a loving relationship.
— —James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee.
— Compton Gage
Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed.
— Compton Gage
As for the tokens whereof thou ask me, I may tell thee of them in part: but as touching thy life, I am not sent to shew thee.
— Compton Gage
Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.
— Compton Gage
The land, that thou see now to have root, shall thou see wasted suddenly.
— Compton Gage
If the most High grant thee to live, thou shall see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:
— Compton Gage
Blood shall drop out of wood, and the stone shall give his voice, and the people shall be troubled:
— Compton Gage
He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
— Compton Gage
The Sodomy sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known: but they shall all hear the voice thereof.
— Compton Gage
There shall be confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruate women shall bring forth monsters:
— Compton Gage
Salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into his secret chamber-
— Compton Gage
One land also shall ask another, and say, ‘Is righteousness that makes a man righteous gone through thee?’ And it shall say, ‘No.
— Compton Gage
At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.
— Compton Gage
To shew thee such tokens I have leave; and if thou wilt pray again, and weep as now, and fast even days, thou shall hear yet greater things.
— Compton Gage
An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more.
— Compton Gage
After seven days of fasten so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me- and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding.
— Compton Gage
Hear me, and I will instruct thee; hearken to the thing that I say, and I shall tell thee more.
— Compton Gage
Thou art sore troubled in mind for the people in the world’s sake: loves thou that people better than he that made them?
— Compton Gage
Number me the things that are not yet come- gather me together the dross that are scattered abroad- make me the flowers green again that are withered- Open me the places that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up- shew me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to thee the thing that thou labor to know.
— Compton Gage
O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?
— Compton Gage
As for you, you're unwise: how may you then speak of these things whereof thou ask you?
— Compton Gage
Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.
— Compton Gage
Behold, O Lord, yet art thou nigh unto them that be reserved till the end: and what shall they do that have been before me, or we that be now, or they that shall come after us?
— Compton Gage
I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.
— Compton Gage
Could thou not make those that have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that thou might shew thy judgement the sooner?
— Compton Gage
The creature may not haste above the maker
—  neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.
As thou hast said unto thy servant, that thou, which gives life to all, hast given life at once to the creature that thou hast created, and the creature bare it: even so it might now also bear them that now be present at once.
— Compton Gage
Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bring forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.
— Compton Gage
She cannot: but must do it by distance of time.
— Compton Gage
How my adventures become your sins?
— Compton Gage
Go thy way, weigh me the weight of the fire, or measure me the blast of the wind, or call me again the day that is past.
— Compton Gage
What man is able to do that, that thou should ask such things of me?
— Compton Gage
If I should ask thee how great dwellings are in the midst of the sea, or how many springs are in the beginning of the deep, or how many springs are above the firmament, or which are the outgoings of paradise: Peradventure thou would say unto me, ‘I never went down into the deep, nor as yet into hell, neither did I ever climb up into heaven.
— Compton Gage
Nevertheless now have I asked thee but only of the fire and wind, and of the day where-through thou hast passed, and of things from which thou canst not be separated, and yet canst thou give me no answer of them.
— Compton Gage
Thine own things, and such as are grown up with thee, canst thou not know; How should thy vessel then be able to comprehend the way of the Highest, and, the world being now outwardly corrupted to understand the corruption that is evident in my sight?
— Compton Gage
It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore.
— Compton Gage
I went into a forest into a plain, and the trees took counsel- And said, Come, let us go and make war against the sea that it may depart away before us, and that we may make us more woods. The floods of the sea also in like manner took counsel, and said, Come, let us go up and subdue the woods of the plain, that there also we may make us another country. The thought of the wood was in vain, for the fire came and consumed it. The thought of the floods of the sea came likewise to nought, for the sand stood up and stopped them. If thou wart judge now betwixt these two, whom would thou begin to justify? or whom would thou condemn?
— Compton Gage
Verily it is a foolish thought that they both have devised, for the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea also had its place to bear its floods.
— Compton Gage
Thou hast given a right judgment, but why judge thou not thyself also?
— Compton Gage
For like as the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea to his floods: even so they that dwell upon the earth may understand nothing but that which is upon the earth: and he that dwell above the heavens may only understand the things that are above the height of the heavens.
— Compton Gage
I beseech thee, O Lord, let me have understanding: For it was not my mind to be curious of the high things, but of such as pass by us daily.
— Compton Gage
Wherefore the present age is given up as a reproach to the heathen, and for what cause the people whom thou hast loved is given over unto ungodly nations?!
— Compton Gage
Why the law of our forefathers are brought to nought, and the written covenants come to none effect-
— Compton Gage
We pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is astonishment and fear, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.
— Compton Gage
What will he then do unto his name whereby we are called? ...of these things have I asked.
— Compton Gage
The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel.
— Compton Gage
The more thou search, the more thou shall marvel; for the world hast fast to pass away-
— Compton Gage
The world hast fast to pass away- And cannot comprehend the things that are promised to the righteous in time to come: for this world is full of unrighteousness and infirmities.
— Compton Gage
As concerning the things whereof thou asked me, I will tell thee; for the evil is sown, but the destruction thereof is not yet come.
— Compton Gage
If therefore that which is sown be not turned upside down, and if the place where the evil is sown passes not away, then cannot it come that is sown with good?
— Compton Gage
The grain of evil seed had been sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and how much ungodliness had it brought up unto this time? and how much shall it yet bring forth until the time of threshing come?
— Compton Gage
Ponder now by thyself, how great fruit of wickedness the grain of evil seed had brought forth. And when the ears shall be cut down, which are without number, how great a floor shall they fill?
— Compton Gage
How, and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?
— Compton Gage
Do not thou hasten above the most Highest: for thy haste is in vain to be above him, for thou hast much exceeded.
— Compton Gage
Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, "How long shall I hope on this fashion?" when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward?
— Compton Gage
O Lord that bear rule, even we all are full of impiety. And for our sakes peradventure it is that the floors of the righteous are not filled, because of the sins of them that dwell upon the earth.
— Compton Gage
Go thy way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she had fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.
— Compton Gage
In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman: For like as a woman that travails make haste to escape the necessity of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed unto them.
— Compton Gage
From the beginning, look, what thou desires to see, it shall be shew thee.
— Compton Gage
If I have found favor in thy sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore, shew me then whether there be more to come than is past, or more past than is to come.
— Compton Gage
Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Spiritual Laws
When one grows older one learns that happiness—complete and unadulterated happiness—comes only in moments, and must be recognized and savored to the full, for even in the happiest life, the complete joy is not always present.
— Victoria Holt, The Legend of the Seventh Virgin
So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got.
— Fay Weldon, Female Friends
Happiness thinks only of itself.
— Raymond Radiguet, The Devil in the Flesh
Happy people tend to be those who take pleasure in simple things.
— Auliq Ice
Love wins when reflections win over reflexes.
— Abhysheq Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid
In the end, you will realize most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
— Abhysheq Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid
Happiness changes the way you see the world.
— Auliq Ice
Happiness is the primary goal of human existence.
— Joey Lawsin
This life-enhancing, happiness-inducing miracle drug that does, in fact, ruthlessly kill its enemies—you’ve guessed it—is gratitude.
— Auliq Ice
But that’s the way life is; felicity and expiation play together in the narrow lanes of life like bosom friends, inseparable. You find one, and the other is always around the corner.
— Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow
Be open about your thoughts, ideas, and desires and you will be right with your decisions.
— Auliq Ice
Where Love Leads, Hatred Cannot Follow.
— Auliq Ice
Happiness is long-lasting, a condition of the soul, the foundation on which the circumstances of life are experienced, endured, or enjoyed.
— Auliq Ice
Happiness is the condition of who we are and how we think and what we believe and how we live.
— Auliq Ice
Gratitude changes us.
— Auliq Ice, The Secret of Greatness
Life, is a chess game you win or loose, but just keep playing.
— Auliq Ice
Where there is love, things roll.
— Auliq Ice
I'd learned more about her in that exhausted, murmuring hour than in all the many months before it. Lovers find their way by such insights and confidences: they're the stars we use to navigate the ocean of desire. And the brightest of those stars are the heartbreaks and sorrows. The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering. So I took each sadness she confessed to me, and pinned it to the sky.
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
You either bend, or you break. Suppress your ego to stay happy.
— Manoj Arora, Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always
The greatest futility! says the congregator, "The greatest futility! Everything is futile!" What does a person gain from all his hard work- At which he toils under the sun? A generation goes and another cometh forth, but the earth remains the same.
— Compton Gage
As thou know not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou know not the works of what makes all.
— Compton Gage
In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou know not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
— Compton Gage
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. And all that cometh is vanity.
— Compton Gage
These be they that have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms.
— Compton Gage
Go thy way, and tell my people, the people of thy Lord God what manner of things, and how great wonders of the Lord thy God, thou hast seen.
— Compton Gage
And yet their reward appear not, and their labor had no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the heathen, and I see that they flow in wealth, and think not upon thy commandments.
— Compton Gage
Weigh thou therefore their wickedness now in the balance, and theirs also that dwell the world; and so shall thy name no where be found anymore.
— Compton Gage
When was it that they who dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy commandments? Thou shall find that you all by name had kept thy precepts
—  but not the heathen.
Thy heart had gone too far in this world, and think thou to comprehend the way of the most High?
— Compton Gage
The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
Those who achieve the extraordinary are usually the most ordinary because they have nothing to prove to anybody. Be Humble.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
It's in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.
— Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
There's just so much to live for.
— Alex George, Setting Free the Kites
A little bit closer to the stars, anything seemed possible.
— Heather Demetrios, I'll Meet You There
The world is perfect, and at the same time, it is in a constant state of unfolding. This is also true for you and me. Our quest for enlightenment is really just a re-connection with something that already exists in us.
— Victor Shamas
The secret to a happy life is simply your attitude.
— Gloria Tesch
Best Way to Stay Happy is to be busy.
— Dipika Agarwal
One has to learn contentment, forgiveness, and purpose on her own before the universe allows her to share her happiness with another soul.
— Benyf, 11.11.11 After so Many Years of Tears: Letters to My Distant Soul-Mate
This is the secret of happiness that you have been looking for:If you are moving in the direction of your identified desires, you're happy in this moment.If you're moving in opposition to your identified desires, you are unhappy in this moment.
— Abraham Hicks
Happy people is a great hope to all the unhappy people because a path of success can always be used by the people who couldn’t find such a path yet!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Acceptance is an important part of serenity. It is not enough, however, simply to accept the things we cannot change. For me, serenity comes from not having any investment in the outcome. If I am genuinely serene, then it will not matter to me whether things change or stay the same. Either way, I choose to be happy.
— Victor Shamas, The Chanters Guide: Sacred Chanting as a Shamanic Practice
The sacred h”s : hope, happiness and health.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Happiness is health
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Count your blessings as the more you are grateful for what you have the more there is to be grateful for.
— Pravin Agarwal
Sometimes you have to create your own sunshine.
— Sam Sundquist
Happiness is not a thing - it is a feeling
—  a way of joyful living and being. It comes from inner fulfilment and appreciating the world you live in.
you don't have to be happy to spread happiness.
— Naresh Soni
Miles and miles of smiles illustrated by the gratitude that creates them
— Paul Bradley Smith
Your life - and all lives - will be richer if lived with a open, loving heart rather than a closed, fearful mind
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
When people use you, it does not feel very good. But when God uses you for His purpose, it's the greatest feeling in the world!
— Jen Selinsky
When people use you, it does not feel very good. But when God uses you for His purpose, it's the gretest feeling in the world!
— Jen Selinsky
Alone, we are great, but together, we are better.
— Izey Victoria Odiase
Health and happiness are the two most precious and elusive of human conditions. At their core, they are one and the same. Both are a function of balance.
— Victor Shamas, The Way of Play: Reclaiming Divine Fun & Celebration
before destroying ,please create one same
— litymunshi
- Chodź, Słoniczko, mam Ci coś ważnego do powiedzenia - powiedziała Mama-słoń pewnego razu, gdy pod wieczór pomarańczowe słońce wtapiało się w pomarańczową pustynię, a stado szarych słoni w szarym zmierzchu wyglądało jak stado cieni. - Jeżeli będziesz sama, moja Słoniczko, to w chwili uniesienia i serdecznej radości pamiętaj zawsze owinąć trąbę wokół czegoś, co jest bardzo ciężkie: wokół rosłej palmy albo ogromnego głazu, tak abyś nie odfrunęła do gwiazd. Kiedy natomiast, słuchaj, Kochanie, uważnie, poczujesz, że jest Ci bardzo ciężko i bardzo jesteś nieszczęśliwa, to rozłóż cztery łapki na boki - wtedy piaski pustyni nie pochłoną Cię tak łatwo - i staraj się sobie przypomnieć, jak to było kiedyś, gdy jak balonik unosiłaś się nad światem.
— Joanna Klara Teske, Wschód i zachód słonia
I have attended weddings, with chipped nail paints.I have worn same blue denim for days in a row.I have not followed etiquette sometimes, I was too happy to bother.I have picked up fights, ugly ones too.I have been notorious because I stood up for myself.I have flaws. I am flawed.But I have come to realize,It’s okay to life a life others don’t understand.My life should be my LIBERATION,Not anyone’s REGULATION.
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Being grateful for what you have is the key to peace and happiness.
— Pravin Agarwal
Even though I knew this might end in heartbreak, that he might make my life scary and complicated and unpredictable, I knew I couldn't let him walk away. Because I knew he'd also make my life happy and comforting and full.
— Kasie West, By Your Side
If you think only sunshine brings you happiness, then you have not danced in the rain
— Unknown
The flower replied: you fool! Do you imagine I blossom in order to be seen? I blossom for my own sake because it pleases me, not for the sake of others. My joy consists in my being and my blossoming.
— Irvin Yalom
Follow your heart, there lies your happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Let the song in your heart makes you happy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Happiness is a spiritual dimension; therefore its source should also be spiritual, not material.
— Sunday Adelaja
Sadly a pinch of happiness is not sold in markets.
— Alamvusha
Happiness happens when you have a bigger purpose than having more fulfills, which is why we say happiness happens on the way to fulfillment.
— Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Wrath held her even closer, right to his beating chest. “. . . a son?” “Yes. A son.” All of a sudden, he felt the biggest, widest, happiest grin hit his face, the g*dd*mn thing stretching his cheeks until they hurt, making his eyes water from the strain, pulling at his temples until they burned. And the joy wasn’t just on his puss. A flush so great it burned him alive flooded through his body, cleansing him in places he didn’t know were dirty, washing out cobwebs that had crept into his corners, making him feel alive in a way he hadn’t been in a very, very long time. Before he knew what he was doing, he burst to his feet with Beth in his arms, leaned back, and hollered at the top of his lungs, with more pride than his six-foot-nine frame could hold. “A soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon! I’m having a soooooooooooooooooooooooon!”-Wrath & Beth
— J.R. Ward, The King
Happiness is a choice. It's not always easy, but is IS always worth it.
— Lorri Faye
Have you ever thought; whilst looking all this time for the magic in the world, it's been inside you all along? No matter how far you travel, how wide you spread your wings and learn to fly if you have no idea what treasures hide within you you'll be searching your entire life.
— Nikki Rowe
A smile is a smile.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The next time you feel really good, just keep feeling that way for the rest of your life.
— Donny Miller, Beautiful People with Beautiful Feelings
Money can make life comfortable, solve some problems and bring temporary satisfaction, but true happiness and joy is not guaranteed by money.
— Sunday Adelaja
There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Ah! candid and unadulterated mind! you have learned early to reflect; but take care lest this habit, hitherto so well applied, should totally unfit you for society. It will strew thorns in your path, while other young women of your age seek only flowers. By imagining yourself in the place of others, as you now continually do, you will learn to feel for all the unhappy, or even for those who appear so; whereas it might save a great deal of (for the most part useless) pain, if you could contrive to feel only for yourself.
— Charlotte Turner Smith, Marchmont
Hope in God makes a happy heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Happiness is a spiritual concept and his source is hidden in God
— Sunday Adelaja
Whoever has money would have realized that it doesn’t bring happiness
— Sunday Adelaja
God is the only source of happiness and money
— Sunday Adelaja
Everyone's holding my happiness hostage.
— Donny Miller, Beautiful People with Beautiful Feelings
To become happy in life you need to master the eleven skills: know your life compass, change your thinking, change your beliefs, accept your limits, take responsibility for your life, use positive language, change your habits, manage negative emotions in a wise way, set compelling goals, master time management and face life challenges
— Victoria Herocten, Awaken Mega Happiness
Happiness manifest when the ordained is realized
— Sunday Adelaja
She had never been able to stand her husband, though not for one minute in their married life had she permitted this to make her unhappy. Only people who are fond of somebody can ever be unhappy, she had told her daughter before her wedding.
— Anna Seghers, The Seventh Cross