#happiness

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ↗

— Charles Morgan

#allowing #art #being #change #child

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#because #day #fleeting #gone #happiness

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book. ↗

— Lois Wyse

#life #living-life-to-the-full #love #life

Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#simplicity #life

I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world's goods. But blow for blow I shall strike against Communism, because it robs us of the next world's happiness. ↗

— Charles E. Coughlin

#catholic #communism #happiness #life

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. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence 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 in the manifestations of your own blessings. 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. If you don't, you will leak away your inner contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

I believe I may assert that they were really in possession of deep and growing happiness. It ended. Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering- and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that the one's interest was not in the chief consideration in the other's thoughts. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#love #selfishness #love

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time. ↗

— John Belushi

#happiness #i #state #time #want

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#catholicism #christianity #church #discipline #happiness

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person. ↗

— John Green

#unhappiness #person