Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.
The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.
The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else's dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness.
We are the architects of our own happiness
REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.
Be happy. Talk happiness.
Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.
Joy is spiritual and far grittier than happiness, and far more robust.
Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
What's the world's greatest lie?. . . It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Happiness is your choice to make. How happy or how miserable do you want to be?
The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness by what it chooses to compare the experience with. If it chooses to compare it to something worse then it will create happiness, gratitude and pride but if it chooses to compare it to something better then it will create unhappiness, bitterness and envy.
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.
God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.