Happiness Choices Quotes

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

One way to express choice is through the market. Well-functioning markets provide choices and, ultimately, the ability to express one's pursuit for happiness. ~ Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

Life is worth more than man will ever know. Each of our choices open up the possibility of a different world. Every time we wake up, the universe puts itself in our hands. So many paths. So many choices. Our discernment is the only way to tell which one leads to happiness. ~ Thierry Cohen

People who go to Disney who have magic in themselves experience magic there, just as people who go to the grocery store who have magic in themselves experience magic at the grocery store. The principle is simple: fun, joy, and happiness, are something we bring to life, not something life, circumstance, or situation bring to us. There are truly no magic kingdoms, only magic people.
Fun, joy and happiness are choices, orientations, approaches, attitudes, a way of living in the world, not the world itself ... ~ David W. Jones

Happiness is a conditioning of the mind and body so that happiness is totally within the way you perceive things and handle situations in life. You choose to be happy; happiness doesn't choose you. - Charmainism ~ Charmaine Smith Ladd

Happiness is a choice. Choose to be happy and you will be. ~ Domonique Bertolucci

I've realized that being happy is a choice. ~ Angelina Jolie

happiness is a choice and is entirely down to us ~ John Burley

Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make. ~ Joel Osteen

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice. ~ Arthur Golden

Happiness is a choice, a repetitive one. ~ Akilnathan Logeswaran

If you want to be happy you have to work to make it happen. You can't just wish for it and you can't put it in the hands of other people. ~ Michael Buckley

Happiness has always been a will of the whisk often a mirage!whenever i stretch my hands to grasp it ......It eludes me mockingly...There is so much i wish to forget yet how difficult it is to forget.My life has been on trial every moment on test... ~ Naser Bawazeer

Living in happiness means practicing the dance of "detachment-attachment". On a daily basis, we must sense which moments, which events, which people, thoughts and circumstances to detach ourselves from; and which ones to attach ourselves to. Learning this dance, and doing it well, leads to happiness. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Do.As.Thou.Wilt. ~ Peter O'Toole

Follow your heart, there lies your happiness. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility ... then you might be to blame. ~ Jennifer O'Neill

Happiness is a result of balance rather than intensity. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be. ~ Jennifer O'Neill

An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in charge of how I will approach problems in my life, that things will turn out better or worse because of me and nobody else, that was the day I knew I would be a happier and healthier person. And that was the day I knew I could truly build a life that matters. ~ Steve Goodier

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~ Freya Stark

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life. ~ Bruce Lee

Don't start acting like you're responsible for everyone's problems. I make my own choices. So do you.. Being lied to or bribed or coerced doesn't qualify as making a choice ~ Amy Ewing

You will meet happiness on your way if you just stop looking for happiness desperately! Live your life without looking for anything! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When someone hurts you, hates you, don't hate him, win him with love; you will find the peace. ~ Debasish Mridha

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Find happiness in making others happy. ~ Mary MacKillop

Happiness is not outside ourselves. ~ Leo Babauta

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection. ~ Amit Ray

Kindness is soft and beautiful like a fresh flower. ~ Debasish Mridha

How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor heard? I believe the exploration and enrichment of the human spirit is what determines our very humanity. Such enrichment provides an inner compass that can lead civilizations to greatness. ~ Daisaku Ikeda

For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control. ~ Marissa Mayer

We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it? ~ Tami Hoag

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Albus Dumbledore ~ J.K. Rock

I've known supreme happiness, and I'm not greedy enough to want what I have to go on forever. Every dream ends. Wouldn't it be foolish, knowing that nothing lasts forever, to insist that one has a right to do something that does?
[ ... ]but, if eternity existed, it would be this moment. ~ Yukio Mishima

It turns out from a number of more recent studies that reported happiness is strongly positively linked with the change or growth in GDP per capita from year to year. ~ Diane Coyle

don't just listen to people crying, hear the reasons why they cry ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The kids like to get pictures of me for their parents. They know how proud I am of them-they have a lot more to worry about than my stardom. They are trying to make good choices for their own lives, but this gives them a little fun. They are part of my family. ~ Mark Goddard

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. ~ Victor Hugo

When I write, I bring joy in my readers face
In my face, peace and complete happiness
But hardly I give any such reflection
During those times, I am in pain
A Sick person who is insane, mad and dead ~ Santosh Kalwar

My friend, it is not an arduous task that I bequeath, for our order knows only silken bonds. To be gentle and patient, to care for the riches of the mind, to preside in wisdom and secrecy while the storm rages without - it will all be very pleasantly simple for you, and you will doubtless find great happiness. ~ James Hilton

All these men recognized what they themselves valued, and lived according to these values regardless of their relationship to the values of their community. Each lived according to what brought them happiness and peace rather than commonplace prescriptions of the multitudes. ~ Chris Matakas

You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love. ~ Lisa Kleypas

We do not choose the one we fall in love with, and our perception of happiness is our own and is determined by what we experience ... ~ Julie Maroh

If you're miserable, make a choice.
If you're still miserable, you can choose again. ~ Martha Beck

There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust. ~ Elsa Triolet

I want to see life through a spiritual perspective, so I can make choices that influence eternity. ~ Alisa Hope Wagner

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of. ~ C.S. Lewis

You know you've found your calling, when you would rather do it and fail, than not do it. ~ Alexander Kjerulf

Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being. ~ Deepak Chopra

Every people should persue happiness in their own way. ~ Gregor Strasser

Find your happiness, Miss. It's out there, for anyone with the courage to follow it, no matter how many twists and turns the path might take. ~ Eden Carson

Both things are invisible But we Both are aware
I colored my self in your fragrance
And you colored your hands in my BLOOD ~ Mohammed Zaki Ansari

God is like a lover. Sometimes he gives you so much pain that staying alive seems like a punishment but in the next moment he shows you so much love, affection and care that you forget all your pains. Yes, the wounds can't be healed completely but god compensates it with other happiness. ~ Mayank Kashyap

Love, time doth change."

The rose was red,
The color of love,
Its petals vibrant,
A sign of your love.
Its stem did twine,
Around my heart,
But it couldn't keep it pumping,
One day it failed to start.
As clouds parted,
Oceans apart,
We only had our memories,
To remember,
Our love would last.
But time went on,
Your love did change,
And so the rose,
Began to change.
Thorns grew wild,
Petals did fade,
My rose was wilting,
Showing its age.
Red was no more,
Black was the hue,
Without your love,
What was I to do?
I tended my garden,
The thoughts in my mind,
For you were still my love,
For me in my mind. ~ Anthony T. Hincks

You can't find happiness; you have to feel it. ~ Debasish Mridha

Anxiety is the fear of the unknown, fear of the uncontrollable. ~ Debasish Mridha

Blessed - lucky - are those who cry. Blessed are those who are sad, who mourn, who feel the loss of what they love - because they will be held by the One who loves them. There is a strange and aching happiness only the hurting know - for they shall be held. ~ Ann Voskamp

You think too much of your "toilette", Adele; but you may have a flower." I took a rose from a vase and fastened it in her sash. She sighed a sign of ineffable satisfaction, as if her cup of happiness were now full. I turned my face away to conceal a smile I could not suppress; there was something ludicrous as well as painful in the little Parisienne's earnest and innate devotion to matters of dress. ~ Charlotte Bronte

In fact, there are all sorts of great institutions and human enterprises that the Bible doesn't address or regulate. And so we are free to invent them and operate them in line with the general principles for human life that the Bible gives us. But marriage is different. As the Presbyterian Book of Common Worship says, God "established marriage for the welfare and happiness of humankind." Marriage did not evolve in the late Bronze Age as a way to determine property rights. At the climax of the Genesis account of creation we see God bringing a woman and a man together to unite them in marriage. The Bible begins with a wedding (of Adam and Eve) and ends in the book of Revelation with a wedding (of Christ and the church). Marriage is God's idea. ~ Timothy Keller