Famous Quotes About happiness

Everything is a gift of the universe even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.

I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share lifes beauty with you.

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.

You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them.

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

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.