My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.
Hats are like a halo of happiness.
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
I claim you as my life mate. I belong to you. I offer my life for you. I give to you my protection, my allegiance, my heart, my soul, and my body. I take into my keeping the same that is yours. Your life, happiness, and welfare will be cherished and placed above my own for all time. You are my life mate, bound to me for all eternity and always in my care.
The door to happiness opens outward.
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
Happiness is speechless.
We have been accustomed to thinking that we have to get something from outside us in order to be happy, but in truth it works the other way: we must learn to contact our inner source of happiness and satisfaction and flow it outward to share with others-not because it is virtuous to do so, but because it really feels good.
Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion.
We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.
Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death. [Lat. , Non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum; rectius occupat Nomen beati, qui Deorum Muneribus sapienter uti, Duramque callet pauperiem pati, Pejusque leto flagitium timet. ]
It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.