#happiness

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#happiness #unless

I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

#coming #happiness #hope #i #i can

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#admire #desiring #secret #without

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#bear #cannot #change #happy #learns

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. ↗

— Sivananda

#alone #best #best way #contentment #craving

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#compassion #fool #happiness #most #naturally

Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#best #born #connected #consider #errors

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important. ↗

— Antonio Gala

#important #nothing #realizing #too

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#ideals #nostalgia #real #truth #youth

Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. “It seems all the negativity in the world doesn’t affect you,” he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It’s all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#life #love #life