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Do not believe anything I tell you. Do not take my advice.
— Swami Pranayomama, How To Not Give A F-ck In Ten Easy Steps: The Modern Lay Person's Guide To Enlightenment
Do as I say, not as I do.
— Swami Pranayomama, How To Not Give A F-ck In Ten Easy Steps: The Modern Lay Person's Guide To Enlightenment
You should try to avoid using the words "should" and "try".
— Swami Pranayomama, How To Not Give A F-ck In Ten Easy Steps: The Modern Lay Person's Guide To Enlightenment
Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man of action pursuing practical goals of personal happiness and wealth or the philosophic man who lives in a world of theoretical and metaphysical ideas? We ascribe the value quotient to our lives by making decisions that we score as either valid or invalid based upon our personal ethics and how we think and behave.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Whoever is content, shall be cheerful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There's a lesson here, and that is I have to find happiness inside myself before I try to partner again.
— Ellen Hopkins, Traffick
Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.
— Ahmed Mostafa
They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls.
— E.M. Forster, Maurice
...[A]ll the elements which belong to the notion of happiness are altogether empirical, that is, they must be borrowed from experience, and nevertheless the idea of happiness requires an absolute whole, a maximum of welfare in my present and all future circumstances. Now it is impossible that the most clear-sighted and at the same time most powerful being (supposed finite) should frame to himself a definite conception of what he really wills in this. Does he will riches, how much anxiety, envy, and snares might he not thereby draw upon his shoulders? Does he will knowledge and discernment, perhaps it might prove to be only an eye so much the sharper to show him so much the more fearfully the evils that are now concealed from him and that cannot be avoided, or to impose more wants on his desires, which already give him concern enough. Would he have long life? Who guarantees to him that it would not be a long misery? Would he at least have health? How often has uneasiness of the body restrained from excesses into which perfect health would have allowed one to fall, and so on? In short, he is unable, on any principle, to determine with certainty what would make him truly happy; because to do so he would need to be omniscient.
— Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
May today find you happiness and a calm in your heart from God you can’t explain.
— Ron Baratono
Constant thoughts of money, possession, and control are a personal prison. Thoughts of God, family, and happiness are freedom.
— Ron Baratono
Felicity is a continual progress of the desire, from one object to another; the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.
— Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Do what you can with all love and passion irrespective of whether it pays you well or not. Joy in the result lives longer than the joy in the reward.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
Jalebi (dessert) makes tea taste bland [tasteless]. Similarly, when one tastes the happiness of the Self, it makes worldly happiness bland. One cannot break free from the worldly life until one finds worldly happiness bland.
— Dada Bhagwan
Pleasure is ‘suffering’ (vedna) and pain is distress as well. If pleasure is ‘suffering’, it cannot be considered a pleasure. If pleasure is enjoyed excessively, it becomes ‘suffering’. How can it be considered a pleasure? These are all entanglements of those living in illusion [of the Self]. To live in the ocean of happiness and yet no dislike arises; that is known as true happiness.
— Dada Bhagwan
If you like happiness, then worship that wherein happiness is inherent. Happiness is in God. God is an abode of infinite bliss. If you worship the inanimate (the non-Self, [Jad]), then you will have pain because there is only pain in the inanimate.
— Dada Bhagwan
Whoever is content,shall be cheerful.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people’s happiness.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
It is not how long the music last but how much we enjoy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You have the right to promote your own happiness just like everyone else, just like me. Your present dream has been shattered, but you can dream another. You should know that 'you can't relive old dreams.' Even if you force them to come true, they won't bring you happiness.
— Mao Dun, Rainbow
Happiness is a series of grains of sand spread out in a desert of violence and anguish.
— Sebastien de Castell, Knight's Shadow
The harmony of soul with the spirit is Happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What matters is what we make of our existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we obey the great laws, we shall be happy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Hope is the highest happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Happiness is awaiting you every moment of each day for you to embrace. You just make the mistake that you need to achieve 'this' or 'that' or reach something you call 'success' in order to gain it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It is true that I suffered in a difficult and stupid love affair and that I worked at one bad job after another to try to keep myself going. Nevertheless, I remember that time as extraordinary, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I don't even wish now that I had more money. And had I been asked if I was suffering at the time, I would have said a defiant no.
— Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
Walking across campus made me feel sad, and I thought to myself, I wasn't happy there. Then, after reading, we walked past Butler Library. It was dark, but the light inside illuminated the windows. Students were reading and working, and those lit windows gave me a wonderful, weightless feeling. I understood for the first time how happy I had been there - in the library.
— Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
Hatred is a burden that can hunt you day by day, robbing you off your personal joy in broad day light.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
Your problems will keep coming and going. It is in your interest to deal with them with equanimity and focus on finding happiness in whatever you do. Be the kind of person who says about problems—this too shall pass, and about happiness—it is my constant companion.
— Lamees Alhassar
It is downright incredible that an extremely significant proportion of people make the wrong choice. But the good news is that we can course-correct at any stage in our life and get back on the path to finding true happiness and contentment.
— Lamees Alhassar
Ha ha ha ha! Tee-hee-hee!Mwa-ha mwa-ha!Kee kee kee!Ho ho ho ho! Haw-hee-haw! Heh heh heh heh!Gah guffaw! Hoo hoo hoo hoo!Hoi hoi-eee!Ba ha ha ha! Tsee tsee tsee!Giggle, titter,snicker, crow,laughter makesmy 'happy' grow!
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Disciples of Fortune
Happiness lies in hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Whoever is content, would be of good cheer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation?
— Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different
Happiness is a frame of mind. It is a state of thinking. It is an attitude, a headset, a mentality. Happiness is a disposition and demeanor. It is a mood and sensibility. It is a philosophy, a notion, a tone, an outlook and perspective. Happiness is all of these things, none of which exist separate from me. They cannot be extracted or stolen because they constitute my very being. Therefore, happiness must be the natural essence of me.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
I have never been drawn to luxury. I love the simple things; coffee shops, books, and people who try to understand.
— R. Y.S. Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
When words failed I realized there was something unspeakably beautiful in not being able to put words to your happiness.
— R. Y.S. Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
If I have one piece of advice to give you all about what to search for in your quest for What Next, it's to find where the line blurs between hard work and happiness for you. To find that thing where working hard at it makes you happy, and where you're happy to work hard at it.
— Tom Fletcher
But one of the main reasons why Denmark does so well in international happiness surveys is the welfare state, as it reduces uncertainty, worries and stress in the population. You can say that Denmark is the happiest country in the world or you can say that Denmark is the least unhappy country in the world. The welfare state is really good (not perfect, but good) at reducing extreme unhappiness. Universal and free health care, free university education and relatively generous unemployment benefits go a long way towards reducing unhappiness.
— Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
I've never had a moment when I thought: "Tom, you've made it!", and I don't think I want to, because that feels like you've reached the end; that you've crossed the finish line. But to me there is no end. An achievement is not a finish line; it's a checkpoint on a far greater journey. It's a moment to pause, to take a breath and look back and enjoy what you've experienced and be grateful for it, but then to turn around and look towards the next checkpoint, the next achievement.
— Tom Fletcher
Hope is a tree of happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If I am a puzzle, this is the moment in which I find the first corner piece. There is still a lot of work to do; I still have a thousand pieces of myself to fit into place. But everyone knows you're supposed to find the corners first. They are the beginning.
— Claire Legrand, Some Kind of Happiness
Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable.
— Oli Anderson, Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication
The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity, can never give pleasure to an impartial rational spectator. Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition even of being worthy of happiness.
— Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
He asked me once what I wanted when I died, what I wanted out of life, and I told him I just wanted more happy memories than sad ones.
— R. Y.S. Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
Flights are expansive moments when the phone doesn't ring and the Internet doesn't work. The maxim that flying time is wasted time liberates me from my anxieties and guilt feelings, and it strips me of all ambitions, leaving room for a different sort of existence. A happy, idiotic existence, the kind that doesn't try to make the most of time but is satisfied with merely finding the most enjoyable way to spend it.
— Etgar Keret, The Seven Good Years
Find Gratitude Happiness will follow you.
— Muhammad Riaz
Most of us respond with panic when we get what we want. The moment of victory is often the moment of greatest peril. We let success get to our head and start acting in over-confident ways. This is the beginning of self-destruction
— Mohadesa Najumi
The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answer and perhaps does not admit of one. Some of those who have asked it have added that if it should turn out that life has no purpose, it would lose all value for them. But this threat alters nothing. It looks, on the contrary, as though one had a right to dismiss the question, for it seems to derive from the human presumptuousness, many other manifestations of which are already familiar to us. Nobody talks about the purpose of the life of animals, unless, perhaps, it may be supposed to lie in being of service to man. But this view is not tenable either, for there are many animals of which man can make nothing, except to describe, classify and study them; and innumerable species of animals have escaped even this use, since they existed and became extinct before man set eyes on them.
— Sigmund Freud
We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior to be the purpose and intention of their lives. What do they demand of life and wish to achieve in it? The answer to this can hardly be in doubt. They strive for happiness; they want to become happy and to remain so. This endeavor has two sides, a positive and a negative aim. It aims, on the one hand, at an absence of pain and unpleasure, and, on the other, at the experiencing of strong feelings of pleasure. In its narrower sense the word 'happiness' only relates to the last. In conformity with this dichotomy in his aims, man's activity develops in two directions, according as it seeks to realize — in the main, or even exclusively — the one or the other of these aims.
— Sigmund Freud
There's a belief that to take care of someone else, or to let someone else take care of you - that both are inherently unfeminist. i don't agree. There's no shame in devoting yourself to another person, as long as he devotes himself to you in return
— Curtis Sittenfeld, Eligible
My secret to happiness? Keep sadness to yourself
— Cesar Nikko Caharian III
Is there such a thing as being too happy?
— Shannon  Mullen, See What Flowers
If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest health shall be happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To be happy is to be healthy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Reach for the heaven
—  seek happiness.
Seek happiness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A learned society of our day, no doubt with the loftiest of intentions, has proposed the question, “Which people, in history, might have been the happiest?” If I properly understand the question, and if it is not altogether beyond the scope of a human answer, I can think of nothing to say except that at a certain time and under certain circumstances every people must have experienced such a moment or else it never was [a people]. Then again, human nature is no vessel for an absolute, independent, immutable happiness, as defined by the philosopher; rather, she everywhere draws as much happiness towards herself as she can: a supple clay that will conform to the most different situations, needs, and depressions. Even the image of happiness changes with every condition and location (for what is it ever but the sum of “the satisfaction of desire, the fulfillment of purpose, and the gentle overcoming of needs,” all of which are shaped by land, time, and place?). Basically, then, all comparison becomes futile. As soon as the inner meaning of happiness, the inclination has changed; as soon as external opportunities and needs develop and solidify the other meaning—who could compare the different satisfaction of different meanings in different worlds? Who could compare the shepherd and father of the Orient, the ploughman and the artisan, the seaman, runner, conqueror of the world? It is not the laurel wreath that matters, nor the sight of the blessed flock, neither the merchant vessels nor the conquered armies’ standards—but the soul that needed this, strove for it, finally attained it and wanted to attain nothing else. Every nation has its center of happiness within itself, as every ball has its center of gravity!
— Johann Gottfried Herder, Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings
I can say im not a wise guy, but i know something about this - key of happiness? Its getting the things that i want most and never letting it go, indeed there is a 'high price' but it is worth paying for (Ejump,2017)
— ejump - 2017
There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.
— James Rozoff
Tell her happiness is just practice," he said. "If only she acted happy, she would be happy.
— Nancy Horan, Loving Frank
Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.
— Gabrielle Dubois
Happiness is not the Achievement of Dreams.It is the Path to Dreams.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
I went back to my room and spent all night contemplating whether it was possible in life not to be constantly let down. If it could ever be worth pinning your happiness to another person, when all other people ever seemed to do was disappear.
— Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy
If you cannot change the reality of other people, their reality will become yours.
— Sean Azimov, The True Language Of Love: The Book Of Life
​If You have Chosen a Destination, You Must Find a Path. if You have Chosen a Path, You Must Find the Destination. You can Never Choose Both.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Their happiness was the kind which is fashioned of the comfortable disorder of sauvignon bottles and coffee cups in the sink, paperback thrillers with split spines on the nightstand, bathrobes hung haphazard on high-backed, brocade-seated chairs, shutters left open all night, and the hallway ever in need of new paint.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest
Do You want to be Surrounded by Great People? There is an Appreciative Person, behind every Successful Person. Be that Person.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
Passion is a Horse Given to Us to Discipline.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
You are a Hero. Be Heroic. Always.
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
To be honest, I love watching some of the old cartoons and new ones that are popular. It's another way to make me happy and reminisce the good old times. Plus, it makes me forget the recreational world around me. If only the economy would let loose and not tire everyone out. I'm just saying. People have an inner child somewhere. I have one, too. So it's cool to have an inner child at times. It can brighten your day and see another view in life.
— Simi Sunny
Happiness are guest in life but pain is Part of life.
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Both things are invisible But we Both are aware I colored my self in your fragranceAnd you colored your hands in my BLOOD
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Was that the point of suffering: to understand, in some way, what you still had? To clarify it, to rip the stars from the sky and hold them in the hand like diamonds‒to darken all the rest but the most glittering, glad memories? Was that the way to live a sunny life?
— Amber Sparks, The Unfinished World: And Other Stories
Let the tumult inside you, bring you peace and solitude.
— Bhumika Singh
How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.
— Louisa May Alcott, Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories
A big bee, a golden furry fellow, crept into a freesia, and the delicate flower leaned over, swung, shook; and when the bee flew away it fluttered still as though it were laughing. Happy, careless flower!
— Katherine Mansfield
A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn for his woman more than his liberty. This is the rightful order.
— Roman Payne, Hope and Despair
Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
I love you" means I want you to be happy.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Your words on the screen are my color palette I dip my brush into your words and paint youOn the sky, on the ceiling, on the snow; on the tabletOf things eternal : love truth beauty happiness
— Richard L.  Ratliff
Everyone smiles in the same language, Happiness knows no frontiers, no age. No difference thar makes us feel apart if a smile can win even a broken heart.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass, and that the effort to revive such happiness depletes it; that nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.
— André Gide, The Immoralist
People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find...
— Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the World
I was yours once till death if you cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now--I can't hang about whining for ever--and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked and attend to your own happiness?
— E.M. Forster
I know I'll never be able control what other people think. It's not my job to convince others of who I am. My only job is to be who I am. All I can do is find what makes me happy, and live it.
— Jen Wilde
Music is happiness with a steady pulse.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
The past is a lake in which you add every day a glass with your attitudes. How crystal clear is water?
— 1 Minuto na Palma da Mão
Happiness, love and compassion are the aroma of your soul.
— Banani Ray, Flow Yoga The Mindful Path of Action for Transforming Stress into Happiness
For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Those were her best days, although there was always something feckless about her, something so slack and almost fearful in her too frequent smile, so that when you saw Mignon being happy, you always thought: "It can't last." She had the febrile gaiety of a being without a past, without a present, yet she existed thus, without memory or history, only because her past was too bleak to think of and her future too terrible to contemplate; she was the broken blossom of the present tense.
— Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus
Or is it that slow paced evil creeps in when it espies and envies happiness, and then takes a deliberate foul delight in spoiling it?
— Leslie W.P. Garland, The Golden Tup
Such were our minor preparations for the journey, but above all we laid in an ample stock of good-humour, and a genuine disposition to be pleased; determining to travel in true contrabandista style; taking things as we found them, rough or smooth, and mingling with all classes and conditions in a kind of vagabond companionship. It is the true way to travel in Spain.
— Washington Irving, Tales of the Alhambra
Não conseguia pensar em nada que desejasse especialmente na vida, excepto aquelas faíscas de cor púrpura - aquelas flores de fogo desabrochando selvaticamente -; daria a vida para poder segurá-las-
— Akutagawa Ryunosuke
The compound feelings have vanished, the mixture of colors in an art shop, sixteen shades of eggshell. Yellow and blue make green. Friendship? Jealousy? Tenderness? Consideration, sympathy. Happiness. I miss happiness the most, the mixture of everything, of all the negative emotions, a drop of surprise and a bit of joy. Happiness is the perfect blend, but no one knows the recipe.
— Malin Persson Giolito
Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
One fine day she left the past behind and gave privacy to the future. He took his now to take a walk, watch the sun, listen to good music, spread smiles and be grateful!
— 1 Minuto na Palma da Mão
Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Past, of not being able to change. Future, of not being able to predict. Now, to be transformed into a better past and a prosperous future.
— 1 Minuto na Palma da Mão
Because no one can make another person happy", said George. "He was happy when he was with me, but otherwise he wasn't. That's not enough. I mean, in a relationship, you have your ups and downs, sure, and you help each other through, but if a person is genuinely unhappy, it won't work. No amount of love or laughter from the other person can fix that. Each person has to love and laugh on their own They need to feel it for real, deep down, in here.
— Cindy L. Rodriguez
Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Happiness is the result of a life well lived
— Danny Dover, The Minimalist Mindset
Haters can never rejoice especially when their enemy wins. The moment you can’t be happy when someone wins, watch yourself. That habit is not good for you.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
Through memory to knowledge on the way to stars that are stepping down to the stuffy rooms of modern bureaucrats, illuminating their ceilings, their horizons where everything is easily resolved by the piles of paper and recipes for how to live, create, run, eat, breathe, learn how to love, how to make love, how to sleep, how to dream, how happiness is achieved under the artificial stars of the new sky that emerged from the bureaucratic rooms of aspiring and impotent minds, unable to love, even though they had all their life to learn what they preach.
— Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Satire and Aphorisms
Let us dare to dream and shoot for the moon. Even if we don’t fetch the moon, a million stars may fill us with wonder. ("Happiness blowing in the wind")
— Erik Pevernagie
Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.
— Kamand Kojouri
There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it's just by signing an autograph. A child's smile is worth more than all the money in the world.
— Lionel Messi
It’s worth burning myself out like a matchso long as others receive the light and warmth I dispatch.
— Shannon  Perry
I don't think that I am happy, but then again, I don't know. Sometimes I get so caught up in the process of living-- of eating, dressing, taking the train to work, that I don't give it enough thought. Maybe happiness is being content.But is it really?
— Samantha Schutz, I Don't Want To Be Crazy
Today, if you have one depressing thought in you, you will sit depressed. Why? The whole cosmos is going on phenomenally well today, but that does not matter. In your mind there is one thought – not too many, just one – that is bothering you, that will depress you and put you in the dumps.
— Sadhguru, Of Mystics & Mistakes
Mathematically, the purpose of life is to produce a result. In human terms, it is called Happiness.
— Joey Lawsin, Creation by Law
Adults are not supposed to play. We are supposed to stress, have worries and be too busy dealing with life's problems. But according to a study undertaken by Princeton University and led by Alan Krueger, Professor in Economics and Public Affairs there, we are happiest when we are involved in engaging leisure activities.
— Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
make sure you choose work that makes you happy
— Randy Susan Meyers, The Widow of Wall Street
The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It’s not a matter of learning techniques to “make friends and influence people.” Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Sometimes people in abusive situations think they’re responsible for the other person’s happiness or that they’re going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it’s not all up to you to make someone else happy.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
The more we identify and acknowledge moments when we’re unable to share in someone else’s pleasure and ask ourselves whether another person’s happiness truly jeopardizes our own, the more we pave the way for experiencing sympathetic joy
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Your fate is never determined when your massive imagination is.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with others is inseparable from our own happiness.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.
— Charlotte Brontë, Villette
People never remember who helped them conquer their dreams. When they truly achieve a lot, they often forget me easily. I’ve noticed the same behavior in both children and adults, and even in family members. And it’s kind of interesting that they forget easily once taking ownership of their newly owned skills. Probably, if they remembered, they wouldn't take them as their own. They would probably not even comprehend them. That's why I believe that, if you wish to change the world, you have to do the opposite, you have to not need it. Because, if you are really good, people will never appreciate you, and you will disappear into a world that merely reflects you better. You will dissolve into the world. The most enlightened individuals are never remembered by history because they have dissolved themselves into the world. There’s no salt in their water, because the salty water has made them vanish from our records. We have neglected them from our history. That’s why a person can't bet egotistical and help others too. One thing has to give in. You either want to be humble and enlighten the world, or you want to be appreciated and reflect the darkness in the world. The most arrogant and admired people have a special kind of ignorance that the ignorant cannot see. The most humble people, have a special kind of wisdom that only the most enlightened or highly diabolical can feel. They make the soldiers of Satan tremble in fear, and the angels of God rejoice in their never-ending uplifting energy. The masses, however, will never know their prophets, not even when they are speaking to one.
— Robin Sacredfire
You can only give happiness, if you have a stack of happiness in you.
— Joey Lawsin
When it seems you are having too much fun, then a switch turns on in your head and makes you think; if only there were a way to take a snapshot of this moment and place it into a mason jar next to some peach preserves. Or, you can just close your eyes and let the joy sink into your psyche. Each, in their own way will last a lifetime." - A.H. Scott 4/29/12
— A.H. Scott
But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate? He couldn't remember being a child and being able to define happiness (...) "I think he's shy," he finished
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Everything is a tool.Every tool has a purpose.Every purpose always ends with a result.The end result is always a reward.In Nature, it is dubbed as materialization.In Mathematics, it is known as solution.In Life, it is defined as self-gratification.In Human terms, it is called Happiness.
— Joey Lawsin, Originemology
Why are you so restless? what are you looking for? happiness is right there, yes, in front of you.
— Kiran Bisht
Believe me, people do change and they change often and many times through their lifetime. However, due to naiveness, passivity and selfishness, they commonly change towards a more negative self, becoming less than they were. Positive changes are destined for those that seek them. Our world is, by default, designed to bring us down. In order to go up, one must consciously seek to dream and manifest dreams, by learning, reading, asking meaningful questions and actively making connections with others. One must, at least, love.
— Robin Sacredfire
It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.
— Germany Kent
You can'tassume i'min bad shapejust becausei've run out ofthe energy toimpressyou.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying
— Germany Kent
Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness, fulfillment, success and inner peace, start thinking you have the power to achieve those things. Focus on the bright side of life and expect positive results.
— Germany Kent
Any day above ground is a good day. Before you complain about anything, be thankful for your life and the things that are still going well.
— Germany Kent
The issue of false consciousness is a genuinely difficult problem that has no definite solution. We should not approve of an unequal and brutal society because surveys show that people are happy. But who has the right to tell those oppressed women or starving landless peasants that they shouldn’t be happy, if they think they are? Does anyone have the right to make those people feel miserable by telling them the ‘truth’? There are no easy answers to these questions, but they definitely tell us that we cannot rely on ‘subjective’ happiness surveys to decide how well people are doing.
— Ha-Joon Chang, Economics: The User's Guide
You are the ocean
—  everything else is just waves and wind.
Life's a gloomy puddle, until you start jumping in it.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Some bow to the spirit of collectivism, while you ascend to the spirit of your own eclectic rhythms.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
I hope you are smiling and happy and I am not gay.
— Sumrit Shahi, Just Friends
Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but true happiness.
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
Create an environment that is conducive to your emotional and personal growth. Surround yourself with caring and positive people who support you, and reflect who you want to be.
— Steve Maraboli
The difference between a life laced through with frustration and one sustained by happiness depends on whether it is motivated by self-hatred or by real love for oneself.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
— Norm Papernick
The fun part is finding which thoughts, in that crazy beehive of emotion, are the ones that mass produce the honey.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
You are designed for success. Life's tough, but you are greater than its challenges. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You have a history of victory.So ignore the haters, the doubters, and free yourself from the emotional saboteurs. Don't ever forget that you are beautiful, you are capable, you are worthy... you are enough. Set healthy standards and stick to them. Don't settle. Set healthy goals and follow them. Let your behavior speak the love and passion in your heart. Live life to the fullest... make each day worth remembering... Dream BIG & dare to go for it... Be unapologetically you!
— Steve Maraboli
Pay attention to your goals and never let the euphoria of the early success convince you to brag about.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Success without happiness and health is not success.
— Peter Jumrukovski, The Goal Book: How to Achieve Your Dreams and Create a Better Life
It was a gambler's action, but his whole life had probably been made up of gambles; it could hardly be otherwise in the outback.
— Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice
You'd corner me in your conformity but even in dormancy i'm sleeping with enormity, stretching the belly of the earth & everything i was born to be.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
A person who thinks he is right, causes great hurt to others and that is why hurt will come to him. A person who believes ‘I am right’, causes a lot of pain to others.
— Dada Bhagwan
Savez-vous que c'est à cause de cette recherche de ce que j'appellerais les compensations, cette rechercher d'un bonheur malgré tout, que naissent les manies et, souvent, les déséquilibres.
— Georges Simenon, Maigret a peur
The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life.
— Donald Campbell, Understanding Perversion and Violence: Mervin Glasser's Contributions to Psychoanalysis
That was happiness. Not the framed greatest hits, but the moments in between. At the time, I hadn't pegged them as being particularly happy. But now, looking back at those phantom snapshots, I'm struck by my calm, my ease, the evident comfort with my life. I'm happy in retrospect.
— Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different
If you've ever felt a strange sense of sadness or alienation, there's a potential way out of the confusion- just shift this feeling into a sense of purpose. It's not about happiness, although happiness often results from doing something you love. Instead, it's about challenge and fulfillment, finding the perfect combination of striving and achievement that comes from reaching a big goal.
— Chris Guillebeau, The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
Each minute wasted with a shark is a missed opportunity to enjoy being with a Dolphin
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao
My dream is to keep dreaming!
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao
I don't have friends. Before I can't without friends.
— Mario Fingarov
I am a world of uncertainties disguised as a girl.
— Nicole  Lyons
Yesterday it was sun outside. The sky was blue and people were lying under blooming cherry trees in the park. It was Friday, so records were released, that people have been working on for years. Friends around me find success and level up, do fancy photo shoots and get featured on big, white, movie screens. There were parties and lovers, hand in hand, laughing perfectly loud,but I walked numbly through the park, round and round, 40 times for 4 hoursjust wanting to make it through the day.There's a weight that inhabits my chest some times. Like a lock in my throat, making it hard to breathe. A little less air got throughand the sky was so blue I couldn’t look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories,but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desktick tick tickme not making a soundand some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind,but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine.This is not beautiful. This is not useful. You can not do anything with it and it tries to control you, throw you off your balance and lovely waysbut you can not let it.I cleaned up. Took myself for a walk. Tried to keep my eyes on the sky. Stayed away from the alcohol, stayed away from the destructive tools we learn to use. the smoking and the starving, the running, the madness,thinking it will help but it only feeds the fireand I don't want to hurt myself anymore.I made it through and today I woke up, lighter and proud because I'm still here. There are flowers growing outside my window. The coffee is warm, the air is pure. In a few hours I'll be on a train on my way to sing for people who invited me to come, to sing, for them. My own songs, that I created. Me—little me. From nowhere at all. And I have people around that I like and can laugh with, and it's spring again. It will always be spring again.And there will always be a new day.
— Charlotte Eriksson
When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
Unlike many other journeys, when it comes to finding self and matters of the heart you'll swiftly find yourself lost if you follow someone else's
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
A thousand happy moments succumbed to history. It was the happiest hour of the year, worst time of our lives. I can still smell the ruins from that cold dark brute stormy October night.
— Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
You're only as good as your last thought of yourself.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
In love madly,traveling though thelife-raft's unravelingin a beautiful tragedy,but gladly i'm stillpaddling throughthe oceanof youranatomy.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Don't change yourself for anyone, you may struggle a lot to do so... When you are completely changed, people wants the old one to get back again, which would be a difficult task ever for you...
— Giridhar Alwar, My Quest For Happy Life
Though no one can backtrack and create a brand new start, Everyone is capable of taking their life in a brand new direction.
— Germany Kent
LIFE - Death's Very Emissary
— Abhysheq Shukla, KARMA
The best piece of life's magnificence is your slice of internal peace.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Frustration... when our happiness or sadness looses control. The blissful intensity of sensations, the disappointing realisation that dissatisfaction is not enough.
— Strohberry
We bring happiness into the world one day at a time by accepting pain and returning understanding and compassion.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.
— Anthony Liccione
At the end of the day, you control your happiness at peace.
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
Every time I tried kissing happiness, it came very close to me and then pushed me away.
— Toffee, Finding Juliet
I believe adopting free unstructured play, within an appropriate framework, has rich potential in bringing up happy, well-balanced and resilient children.
— Iben Dissing Sandahl, The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids
Life goes on without regard to our whims. What we make of life is what counts, how we address the challenges in our lives determines our respective levels of personal accomplishment and happiness.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Happiness...I see you..You are that wave that comes and goes...always fast...and always leaving a gap behind...
— Viorica Dragotel
To be truly happy, a man must live absolutely in the present, no thought of what's gone before and no thought of what lies ahead. But a life with meaning, a man is condemned to wallow in the past and obsess about the future.
— Daniel Linderman
A person who is fearful of generously loving other people is already half dead. Loving another person brings out the courage in all of us to live a heightened existence, the inner resolve to map out a course of action and follow it to the end. Just as importantly, love awakens us to the knowledge that personal happiness comes not from achieving some corporal objective, but from the quality of thoughts that accompany a person.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
My level of excitement is above cricket proportions
— C.S. Woolley
True Success is about A Winners Heart-Mind-set that enables, energizes and empowers Leadership and SWIFT Actions that Ensure REAL Success and Sustained Long-Term Freedom, Love, Abundance, Peace, Meaning and Joy.” ― Tony "Success Activator" Dovale
— ― Tony "Success Activator" Dovale
As Technology Revolutionizes the Workplace, we must Revolutionise our thinking to make the Workplace a HUMANE and GREAT place to Work.. or we will surely lose our Souls to business profiteers.
— ― Tony "Success Activator" Dovale
A Revolutionary, High-Performance, Workplace is one where the culture is Consciously Constructive. That is EVERYONE is developed, on a daily basis, towards their full potential, to achieve exponential impacts and results, supporting People, Planet & Profits.
— ― Tony "Success Activator" Dovale
A Consciously Constructive organisation must equally balance the 6 Proven aspects of a High Performance Workplace using the proven CLEARx framework. Philosophy and System.
— ― Tony "Success Activator" Dovale
He told me that the phrase “the happiest days of your life” referred to your school days.This seemed nonsensical to me then, and I suspected it of being either adult propaganda or, more likely, confirmation of my creeping suspicion that the majority of adults actually had no memories of being children.
— Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
If a city is designed in a way that makes a long drive to work necessary, we harm the social health of that city. If a lot of people cycle, it's probably an indication that you live in a healthy neighborhood. This is something that should be seriously considered in urban planning, if you want to ensure a neighborhood togetherness and trust among locals.
— Meik Wiking, The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living
Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.
— Euripides, Medea
True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.
— Jeffrey Fry
They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, 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
Everybody needs to be good-natured with a good heart, because in this way we can solve our own problems as well as those of others, and we can make our human life meaningful.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KARMA
We do not recognize that we are addicted to some negative psychological habit, some terribly self-destructive patterns of thinking...
— Abhysheq Shukla, KARMA
We are living a fantasy life in our heads, and our real life is passing by, moment by moment.Life is only lived in moments: anything else is a fantasy, a lie, an illusion.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KARMA
Oh, child, my child, if only you realized who you truly are.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
Karma is a balance sheet of life which debits and credit all your deeds.YourWhich is audited by our creator and actions are based on what we accumulated in it.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KARMA
Karma is the balance sheet of life which debits and credit all your deeds.YourWhich is audited by our creator and actions are based on what we accumulated in it.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KARMA
We create karma by all kinds of selfish actions.The first thing we must understand is that we are psychologically asleep.It is very difficult for us to be conscious of ourselves. We are not very aware. We must come to recognize that we do not pay attention.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KARMA
Self-observation is simply the observation of an internal state and an external event. It is pure awareness, which gives one the ability to choose one's actions. Only by having the choice can one perform what is right.
— Abhysheq Shukla
Desires and Karma are the worst enemies living in the same soul together. It depends on us whom we choose and feed.
— Abhysheq Shukla, KARMA
If you have enjoyed something, but have never experienced joy, then u have not really been happy
— Sunday Adelaja