Prayer for Eloquence
In the pursuit of eloquence, I beseech that each utterance flowing from my lips possess the grace of a gentle breeze and the sweetness of honey dripping from the comb. Should circumstance coerce me to ingest my own words, may they be so palatable that their consumption becomes a delight, rather than a bitter pill to swallow.
Quest for Happiness
The quest for happiness resembles a daring swim across vast oceans, with the seeker traversing from one coast to another in relentless pursuit. Yet, often this journey is shrouded in the veil of skepticism, with each stroke propelled by doubt and suspicion. It is akin to a perplexing maze where happiness appears as an elusive enigma, camouflaged amidst the complexities of existence.
Unraveling the Mystery
As the seeker persists, tirelessly scouring the expanse for traces of joy, a realization dawns – happiness, like a wily specter, eludes easy capture. Despite the fervent search and the fervid desire, it remains tantalizingly out of reach. The seeker, weary and disheartened, contemplates the futility of the pursuit, grappling with the notion that perhaps, happiness is an ephemeral mirage, forever beyond grasp.
Embracing Positivity
Yet, amidst the gloom of disillusionment, there exists a beacon of hope. Instead of resigning to the shadows cast by negative experiences, there lies an opportunity to shift focus. It is the choice to perceive life through a lens tinted with positivity, where every trial and tribulation is but a stepping stone toward personal growth. Thus, rather than being shackled by the past or gripped by uncertainty, there is a resolve to forge ahead, guided by an unwavering determination to chart a course toward fulfillment.
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“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
“Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” –Frank Tyger
“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” –Dennis Waitley
“One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that makes you sad.” –Saily Dose
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” –Buddha
“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit own quietly, may alight upon you.” –Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” –Thomas Merton
“Being happy means that your mind is calm and does not indulge in endless thinking and worrying.” –Remez Sasson
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” –Dalai Lama
“Do small things with great love.” –Mother Theresa
Happiness Is the Way
“Remind yourself daily, there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.” –Lao Tzu
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” –Frederick Keonig
“You never regret being kind.” –Nicole Shepherd
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” –Marcel Pagnol
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life-to be happy-it’s all that matters.” –Audrey Hepburn
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” –Confucius
“When the mind becomes calm, happiness arises from within you.” –Remez Sasson
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.” Ayn Rand
“Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.” William Adams
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” Dale Carnegie
“We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.” Lester Levinson
“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill
“Money doesn’t bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money.” Sam Rosen
“Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him/her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing…just expressed differently.” Robert McPhillips
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” Carl Jung
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” Reinhold Niebuhr
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“I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.” Abraham Lincoln
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” Melody Beattie
“There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts and then acting on them.” Dr. Wayne Dyer
“We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you’re doing is in the doing of it. It’s not what you’re gonna get in the end–it’s not the final curtain–it’s really in the doing it, and loving what you’re doing.” Ralph Lauren
“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” Deepak Chopra
“Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else’s success?” Bill Walton
“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.” Archibald McLeish
“Once you do something you love, you never have to work again.” Willie Hill
“Anything in life that we don’t accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.” Shakti Gawain
“The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.” Margaret Chase Smith
“Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.” Nathaniel Branden
“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.” –Robert Louis Stevenson
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” –Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.” –Bette Davis
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” –Andy Rooney
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“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.” –Thomas Jefferson
“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.” –Rose Lane
“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: 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 going to be happy in it.” –Groucho Marx
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” –Mary Lou Retton
“Reading quotes about happiness at few times a day, signal to your subconscious mind that you want happiness and joy to be part of your life.” –Remez Sasson
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” –Marcel Proust
“Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.” –Ralph Marston
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” –Denis Waitley
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” Soren Kierkegaard
“Do what you have always done and you’ll get what you have always got.” Sue Knight
“The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“We avoid the things that we’re afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.” Shakti Gawain
“Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.” Marcus Aurelius
“Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.” J. Petit Senn
“To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.” Alan Cohen
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” John Milton
“In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.” Albert Clarke
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.” Betty Smith
“You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.” Oprah Winfrey
“Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.” Shari R. Barr
“View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn’t? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn’t?” Victor Frankl
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs–even though checkered by failure–than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time…serenity, that nothing is.” Thomas Szasz
“Being happy is letting go of what slows you down.” –Mike Falzone
“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.” –Benjamin Franklin
“Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” –Aristotle
“Living in the present moment, not in the past and not in the future, and focusing on what you are doing at the present moment, brings calmness, happiness and joy.” –Remez Sasson
“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.” –Richard Bach
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“The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.” –Robert Baden-Powell
“Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.” –Henry Van Dyke
“We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.” –Lester Levinson
“The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.” –Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” Buddha
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, then there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.” Anne Frank
“In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.” Buddha
“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey
“You never regret being kind.” Nicole Shepherd
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Ben Franklin
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” Paul Boese
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate trou
bles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.” Buddha“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” Helen Keller
“Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving.” Dan Millman
“The need for forgiveness is an illusion. There is nothing to forgive.” Rachel England
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” Bernard Meltzer
“Reflect upon you present blessings, of which every man has many–not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” Charles Dickens
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” Carl Jung
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” Marcus Aurelius
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” Dalai Lama
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” Helen Keller
“Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.” Unknown
“True happiness…arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.” Joseph Addison
“There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts and then acting on them. –Dr. Wayne Dyer
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” –Guillaume Apollinaire
“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” –Ashley Montagu
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. –William Ralph Inge
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you. –Deepak Chopra
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Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are. –Ariana Grande
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. –Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not. –Valerie Bertinelli
People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you’re fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly. – Elizabeth Gilbert
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” James Dean
“Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” Frank Tyger
“Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.” Alan Cohen
“Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” Peter Hagerty
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou
“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.” David Allen
“We forge the chains we wear in life.” Charles Dickens
“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.” Lao Tzu
“Everything is a gift of the universe–even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.” Ken Keyes Jr.
“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.” Richard Bach
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” Andrew Carnegie
“Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.” Chinese Proverb
“For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book, and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.” Fernandez de Andrada
“You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.” Alan Cohen
“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them.” Bernard M. Baruch
“Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.” Alain De Botton
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“If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem.” Stephen Covey
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” Denis Waitley
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” Margaret Lee Runbeck
“Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.” Germaine Greer
“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” Greg Anderson
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Ghandi
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