We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

I attribute my success to my deep driving desire and persistence to face the tremendous adversity.

And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a...

Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life.

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love...

Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship.

Gratitude is one of the strongest pillars of a happy life.

A leader is he who has a great vision and can inspire others to go along to pursue it with all great passion.

To live a happy life, you must make it your daily responsibility to frequently focus only on the things that make you mentally and physically stronger.

What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don’t need.

Remember, someone, somewhere in some corner of this somewhat big world, is out there crying if you’re unhappy and is happy if you are! And you know who that someone is!

now that the recalcitrant forsythia has at last decided to come and blurt out springtime in petalled fountains of yellow. In spite of reams of papers to be written, life has snitched a cocaine sniff...

To pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose it.

When we fail we pursue the success.When we succeed we party.

Please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion, because it, too, may take up all your time and deprive you of your health, peace of mind and happiness in life.[Having himself...

Whatever you can dream and believe, you can achieve.

Love is merely a combination between infatuation and confusion.

I imagine, therefore I am.

The days seem short, and time seems too little to do what you love.

Walk through the past and learn the way. I am walking through the present, taking action every day. I am preparing for the future in a great way.

All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel for the soul, without hope, forward motion ceases.

There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it’s not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

It’s not a matter of how small you are. Still you are important; you matter.

Tiny GigglesSilly giggles of laughterI store upon a shelfI give some to otherI save some for myselfI am rich beyond all measureThough not with worldly wealthI store up these treasuresFor my heart and soulful health.

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Success is the greatest teacher for future success.

The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.

Deep within everyone’s heart there always remains a sense of longing for that hour, that summer, that one brief moment of blossoming. For several weeks or months, rarely longer, a beautiful young woman lives outside...

Go according to your curiosity.

Every one has a sum of physical and moral suffering to pay, and whoever does not settle it here below, defrays it after death; happiness is only lent, and must be repaid; its very phantoms...

It’s all about the smiles!

Peace is not only the absence of violence, but the presence of love, kindness, compassion and harmony.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

The tremendous danger is that this belief – that genuine happiness comes only from pleasant feelings – becomes a strong motivation to stay closed to anything unpleasant. But by staying closed to all unpleasantness, we...

If you have to stop and ask yourself ‘Am I happy?’ you aren’t, because when you are you will feel it and know it

I have been poisoned in your love and now I need antidote Jacqueline.L.J!

Speaking of happiness, those distinctive moments are found outdoors – in the fall, in the winter and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don’t matter, and fight.

Still others reflected on how quickly the food could be snatched from a man’s table, or the child from a woman’s breast, or the wife from a man’s bedcloset, that no strength of grasp could...

If we learn to love each other and care, enduring peace will fill the world to share.

The greatest happiness is when the eye discovers beauty where neither then mind conceived of nor the hand intended any.

If I live for you, I can fulfill your happiness, but if you allow me to then you don’t care about mine.

She navigated away from the Parish Council message board and dropped into her favorite medical website, where she painstakingly entered the words “brain” and “death” in the search box.The suggestions were endless. Shirley scrolled through...

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others:...

A Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, came to America more than a century ago and made some astute observations about the American way. He said that we have a misleading idea at the very head of...

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.

The world is a beautiful placeto be born intoif you don’t mind happinessnot always beingso very much funif you don’t mind a touch of hellnow and thenjust when everything is finebecause even in heaventhey don’t...

Dedicate each day to living relaxed and worry-free. Consciously open your heart to the flow of Creation and Creation’s energy. By doing so you have the power to create each day, one day at a...

To create new reality, change the perception but not the reality.