Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
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Makeover Takeover: Colonial Comeback. Treat Your Family to Homemade Cupcakes. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means — either may do — the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations. The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert.
He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy. It's all that matters. Dalai Lama. Elizabeth Gilbert. Lilly Pulitzer. Drew Barrymore. Meghan Markle. Emily Dickinson. Goldie Hawn. The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are. Leo Tolstoy. Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like. Mother Teresa. Spread love everywhere you go. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself — no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are — completely; the good and the bad — and make changes as YOU see fit — not because you think someone else wants you to be different. It is what you think about.
Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. It comes from your own actions. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness. Robert Anthony. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people do not just happen. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights. But the present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president.
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