But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else.… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Their hearts were all cycling through the same madness - the discovery, the bliss, the loss, the despair - like planets taking… — Hannah Tinti Copy Share Image
“From this very moment, remember that you are not separate from existence. And don’t only remember, experiment: be one with the tree… — Osho Copy Share Image
The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep.… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“The Kindly Ones would say it didn't matter. And maybe they were right. We still could have snatched happiness from our tragedy… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
“There must always be a fringe of the experimental in literature--poems bizarre in form and curious in content, stories that overreach for… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“For hearts which have long suffered, happiness is like dew on soil parched by the sun: both heart and earth absorb this… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The devil resists serious, focused prayer because he's defeated by it. And so the devil will try to attack our concentration in… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The antidote for covetousness is contentment. The two are in opposition. Whereas the covetous, greedy person worships himself, the contented person worships… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
Take a minute. Pause. Stop doing, and simply be...This moment. Think, here, now. This moment will never occur again. This moment is… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be… — Lucy Davis Copy Share Image
May this years Diwali be the start of your joyful and prosperous life. Let the light of Diya guide your way towards… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A new report suggests that people in happy marriages are more likely to gain weight than people who are unhappily married. So… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
I think that it would be good for people to realize and understand that they are doing something to deal with their… — Axl Rose Copy Share Image
“The truth is that the forms I see have been slowly emptied out. They no longer have any content. They are shapes… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm happy when I know I've given a horse a good ride, no matter where it is. I like playing… — Tony McCoy Copy Share Image
“I always consider myself personally one of the seven billion human beings. Nothing special. So, on that level, I have tried to… — Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams Copy Share Image
Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what is going on outside… — Barry Neil Kaufman Copy Share Image
At that time when I was struggling with being successful in a financial way, people would say, "You should be very happy.… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
“Happiness and misery consist in a progression towards better or worse; it does not matter how high up or low down you… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I have always said that human beings are multidimensional beings. Their happiness comes from many sources, not, as our current economic framework… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“satisfying. You don’t have to psychoanalyze yourself; you can stop obsessing about your body and dwelling in disappointment and frustration. There is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them "god for us" or… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Why did it have to be this way? Why did she not feel attracted to this boy, who was kind and personable,… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
We worry so much in this culture about being happy. The pursuit of happiness is even written in our Constitution. It's an… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
“I expected you to look... content, happy even, after your alone time with Sammi, not all mopey and depressed. You didn't screw… — Donna Grant Copy Share Image
“Your words on the screen are my color palette I dip my brush into your words and paint you On the sky,… — Richard L. Ratliff Copy Share Image
Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
“The true danger of romanticism is that the principles through which it rules itself are of such nature that everybody can invoke… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When top scientists and psychologists talk about what's important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
