Happiness Quotes - page 99

But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater. (Emily Giffin)
Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice. View quote
Emily Giffin
Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all it takes to get a happiness boost over time. View quote
Eric Barker
[Happiness is] a ghost, it's a shadow. You can't really chase it. It's a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well. View quote
Eric Weiner
I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner. View quote
Eric Weiner
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue. View quote
Eric Weiner
..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it. View quote
Eric Weiner
Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness. View quote
Esther Perel
The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job. View quote
Yvon Chouinard
At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic. View quote
Yehuda Berg
This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way. (John Ajvide Lindqvist)
No one thought of anything but themselves. My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another, and that's what people today are incapable of. View quote
John Ajvide Lindqvist
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them. View quote
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There's no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars. View quote
Carrie Hope Fletcher
Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. View quote
Karin Slaughter
When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose. View quote
Karl Ove Knausgard
The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already knows you own nothing. It is a matter of realizing that your happiness does not depend on your ownership of things. They help you in your journey but they are not the journey itself. View quote
Karen Kingston
I believe we should extend our care and concern to all living creatures with whom we share this planet. ... [Animals] give me a window into a world that is different from our own, but every bit as meaningful. ... I can't imagine what life would be like without animals. They bring me happiness and a sense of calm and peace. View quote
Alyssa Milano
The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness. View quote
Clayton Christensen
The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends. View quote
Clayton Christensen
Radical Forgiveness is much more than the mere letting go of the past. It is the key to creating the life that we want, and the world that we want. It is the key to our own happiness and the key to world peace. It is no longer an option. It is our destiny. (Colin Tipping)
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. View quote
Cornelia Funke
People think happiness will simply fall into their laps. You have to aspire to it. And sometimes you have to seize it when it's kicking and screaming. View quote
Kresley Cole
Some men would take happiness where they found it. Especially when they have absolutely no promise of it anywhere else. [Rydstrom]. View quote
Kresley Cole
What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment. View quote
Chris Evans