Happiness
Quotes - I am very happy
“If
only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
―
Edith Wharton
“I
am very happy
Because
I have conquered myself
And
not the world.
I am
very happy
Because
I have loved the world
And
not myself.”
―
Sri Chinmoy
“I
don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life
seem.”
―
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
“There
is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which
are beyond the power or our will. ”
―
Epictetus
“I'm
a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
―
J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An
Introduction
“Happiness.
It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something
softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those
things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within
her as a swallowed star.”
―
Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
“If
you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy,
practice compassion.”
―
Dalai Lama XIV, The Art of Happiness
“I've
always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they
burst into song at significant moments.”
―
John Barrowman
“No
one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries
within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it
means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is
different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or
stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.”
―
Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
“Even
if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up.
One who continues to advance will win in the end.”
―
Daisaku Ikeda
“My
happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is
its own purpose.”
―
Ayn Rand, Anthem
“Life
is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to
document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure
nobly.”
―
Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
“The
more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to
celebrate.”
―
Oprah Winfrey
“Happiness
is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”
―
Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper
“The
belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's
more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be
unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No
one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems
self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems
unforced, that person usually gets no credit.”
―
Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project
“Certainly
the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride,
which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self
pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive.
It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think
actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It
destroys everything around it, except itself '.
Self
pity will destroy relationships, it'll destroy anything that's good, it will
fulfill all the prophecies it makes and leave only itself. And it's so simple
to imagine that one is hard done by, and that things are unfair, and that one
is underappreciated, and that if only one had had a chance at this, only one
had had a chance at that, things would have gone better, you would be happier
if only this, that one is unlucky. All those things. And some of them may well
even be true. But, to pity oneself as a result of them is to do oneself an
enormous disservice.
I
think it's one of things we find unattractive about the american culture, a
culture which I find mostly, extremely attractive, and I like americans and I
love being in america. But, just occasionally there will be some example of the
absolutely ravening self pity that they are capable of, and you see it in their
talk shows. It's an appalling spectacle, and it's so self destructive. I almost
once wanted to publish a self help book saying 'How To Be Happy by Stephen Fry
: Guaranteed success'. And people buy this huge book and it's all blank pages,
and the first page would just say - ' Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself - And you
will be happy '. Use the rest of the book to write down your interesting
thoughts and drawings, and that's what the book would be, and it would be true.
And it sounds like 'Oh that's so simple', because it's not simple to stop
feeling sorry for yourself, it's bloody hard. Because we do feel sorry for
ourselves, it's what Genesis is all about.”
―
Stephen Fry
“Sometimes
you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”
―
Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
“Success
is getting what you want..
Happiness
is wanting what you get.”
―
Dale Carnegie
“All
who joy would win
Must
share it -- Happiness was born a twin.”
―
George Gordon Byron, Don Juan
“Be
believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.”
―
Gordon B. Hinckley
