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I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy.
Sep 10, 2025
If you are really feeling happy, you are feeling happy even if the whole world contradicts you. If the whole world agrees that you are not happy, then too it doesn't matter. Your happiness is real. It cannot be canceled by anybody's opinion. But if your happiness is unreal, it can be canceled by anybody. Even a small child can cancel it. You will be constantly looking towards people. You will be smiling, trying to show that you are happy so that they can say, 'Yes. You are very happy. You look very happy.'
Guide to the world of the dead. When you are certain that the body has left you, feel sad for the good you didn’t get to do; then stop feeling sad and begin your journey to the past. Feel happy for the evil you didn’t get to do, then stop feeling happy and realize that what propels you is chance, which when you were going in the opposite direction seemed to you like order, or necessity.
When feeling sad, dream on! When feeling happy, dream on! You shall survive by means of your dreams!
I never think, Oh, I'm so beautiful. To me, feeling happy is more important.
Sometimes when I'm not feeling so happy, I do something to make someone else happy then I find I'm suddenly feeling happy again.
The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
I just woke up feeling happy this morning. You know those days when everything in the world seems right.
I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts
Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.
Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.
Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!
I’m happily married. I’ve got more than enough to eat at home.
When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.
As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.
There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness
Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.
The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.
No matter your obstacles, live a happy life.
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.
I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good.
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
Joy attracts more joy. Happiness attracts more happiness. Peace attracts more peace. GRATITUDE attracts more GRATITUDE. Kindness attracts more kindness. Love attracts more love. Your job is an inside one. To change your world, all you have to do is change the way you feel inside. How easy is that?
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.
Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate... Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.
I've got nothing to do today but smile.
The value of a smile... It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Moving on after a break up is a great way to get back on your feet and start feeling happy again.
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.