3,271 quotes found
“Have a GOAL to keep the following 5-‘H’ OUT of your lifeH – HarassH – HamperH – HurtH – HarmH – HinderTo Ensure H=Happiness Prevails forever!”
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
“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 ...”
“It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life”
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over ...”
“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”
“those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.”
“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”
“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”
“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
“Memory is the happiness of being alone.”
“But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.”
“Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's eve...”
“Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.”
“Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had...”
“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
“You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all. Your lover lived in the penitentiary that we are all...”
