It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

I am not good at noticing when I’m happy, except in retrospect.

Forgiveness is the flower of love and kindness; it only grows in the bravest heart.

The more you think of what is right, the more you tend to make every action in your mind right. The more you think of the goal you have in view, the more life and...

More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. people that refocus their attention on service to others or a righteous cause. Have you ever...

Unnatural, unorthodox, amoral: those pretensions crumble when confronted by true happiness. You shouldn’t give another the authority to draw a line defining the boundaries of acceptable joy.

I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They’re worse than zombies. People...

{The final resolutions at Robert Ingersoll’s funeral, quoted here}Whereas, in the order of nature — that nature which moves with unerring certainty in obedience to fixed laws — Robert G. Ingersoll has gone to that...

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

These days I find that I am happy enough in the same way that I am warm enough – the goal isn’t bliss or even comfort in some cases. The goal is to feel alive.

Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).

Because of dreams, success is worth pursuing. Because of love, life is worth living.

Let me tell you something: when you dance, you are the greatest dancer who has ever lived. And when you sing, you will have the courage to raise your voice to the heavens, knowing that...

‘I’m happy,’ David said. ‘All the time. It’s amazing. I think of you and I want to smile. Do I make you want to smile?’ ‘No,’ Alec said, and kissed him. David could feel the...

Everyone has a purpose of life. My purpose of life is to serve humanity.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

You are no ruin sir–no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they...

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

What you do without expectations defines your success.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m...

The purpose of religion is to enhance love, compassion, kindness, and care.It teaches us forgiveness, humility, tolerance, patience, and to share.

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

When someone hurts you, hates you, don’t hate him, win him with love; you will find the peace.

The Three D’s of Creating True Happiness For All…….Declutter – Remove all unwanted items from your home,Donate – to your local charity, Deduct – Save money by claiming your donation on your tax return

No mother ever wants a war, they want to see their children grow up in peace, surrounded by love.

Find happiness where you can,” she said softly. “It’s not just the great big whammo things. Look for the beauty of life in the small things, and you’ll be the happiest person alive.

When you realize who you are and why you’re here, then peace will be there.

How we perceive of the world around us determines the outcome of what it is we choose to see or not see

Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I...

Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

War can’t bring peace only understanding and love can do that.

When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and an astute student of human nature), what the secret of happiness was. Instead...

Imagination doesn’t always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

Be thankful.Be grateful.Be joyful.

Black and white come together.Brown and blue come to gather.Boys and girls come with love.Straight and gay come as a dove.Jewish and Muslim, open your mind.Christian and Hindu, be very kind.Sikh and Buddist come with...

Do we reflect on life? Someday this life will be gone.

Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have...

When you enjoy the little beauties in and around you, it costs you nothing.

Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don’t chase it when it’s gone.

You are the creator of your thoughts, thoughts create your actions, and actions create you.

Your beliefs create your world.

You’re born with the power of love, why you are looking for power of destruction?

The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.

Touch my heart, feel my love, don’t look at me.

I love today, it is a sacred time.

When you love and it hurt, love more and love without expectation.

Todas as famílias felizes se parecem, cada família infeliz é infeliz à sua maneira.

Nothing can cure the mind but the love, nothing can possess the love but the mind.