Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Happy people do not
Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch. Alan Cohen
Happy People
To see lonely, selfish,
To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as ‘unsearchable riches’. Ray Stedman
People want to be
People want to be happy, isn’t that right? Haven’t you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren’t they? Don’t we keep them moving, don’t we give them fun? That’s all we live for, isn’t it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of … Read more
To me, the most
To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people … in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose. Richard M. Nixon
The happy people are
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn. Agatha Christie
Happy people continuously change;
Happy people continuously change; and because they change they become more and more happy; and then more and more change is possible. Rajneesh
The only happy people
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important. Abraham Maslow
Let us re-adopt the
Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south – let all Americans – let all lovers of liberty everywhere – join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we … Read more
People misunderstand happiness. They
People misunderstand happiness. They think it’s the absence of trouble. That’s not happiness, that’s luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. – No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day … Read more