All Quotes By Tag: Happiness-life

“Success is not a finite resource; share it, wish it on others, and celebrate others”

“Laugh every day for five minutes, without any reason, then repeat it for 21 days straight and it will become your habit to do.”

“When a happy person is treating others well, this is not too important; but when an unhappy person is treating others very well, this is very important and very valuable!”

“Pursuing happiness, and I did, and still do, is not at all the same thing as being happy – which I think is fleeting, dependent on circumstances, and a bit bovine…The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centered.What you are pursuing is meaning – a meaningful life…There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else’s terms.”

“Living in happiness means practicing the dance of “detachment-attachment”. On a daily basis, we must sense which moments, which events, which people, thoughts and circumstances to detach ourselves from; and which ones to attach ourselves to. Learning this dance, and doing it well, leads to happiness.”

“Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ei.”

“Move on. Be well. Go for it!”

“To be happy, make others happy.”

“But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder–oh, what will you think of me–if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.”

“Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!”

“Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.”

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”

“Happiness is the most tired word in any language.”

“Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait. Some of those conditions are within you, such as coherence among the parts and levels of your personality. Other conditions require relationships to things beyond you: Just as plants need sun, water, and good soil to thrive, people need love, work, and a connection to something larger. It is worth striving to get the right relationships between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself. If you get these relationships right, a sense of purpose and meaning will emerge.”

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”