Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation. . . Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.
Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.
Happiness does not come from consumption of things.
How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent. ” And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance. . . .
Happiness requires problems
Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
Do not wait for a reason to be happy.
The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear, alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm, and in the miscellany of metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded,--the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials,--these, and the wish to serve,--to add somewhat to the well-being of men.
Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.
Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional in such circumstances as you or I, but their secret weapon is the poise and strength they show in coping in the face of challenge.
All achievement should be measured in human happiness.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.
Happiness is your birthright. Live it!
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.