If you don't you will eat away your innate contentment. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.
She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. “I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. “So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” “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 which has been opened for us.” “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage “You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.” “One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.” “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves-say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.” “I finally understood what true love meant. ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.” “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.” I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.” “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery-air, mountains, trees, people. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” “The most important thing is to enjoy your life-to be happy-it's all that matters.” “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” “I would always rather be happy than dignified.” “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.” “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.Īnd that makes me happy. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. When you feel the need to apologize or explain who you are, it means the voice in your head is telling you the wrong story. It’s funny that we still think of it that way. Being traditional is not traditional anymore. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be. Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. ― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future".” “When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. “Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
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