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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
Oct 1, 2025
If you dont see me on tour, its because I have found happiness away from winning, and that might be the biggest achievement I could ever accomplish.
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.
Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.
Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love of perfumes fills the head with dizziness. Love of flavors ruins the taste. Desires unsettle the heart until the original nature runs amok. These five are enemies of true life. Yet these are what men of discernment claim to live for. They are not what I live for. If this is life, then pigeons in a cage have found happiness!
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
I found happiness when I realized that as imperfect as I may be, I am the perfect Nick Vujicic. I am God's creation, designed according to His plan for me. That's not to say there isn't room for improvement. I'm always trying to be better so I can better serve Him and the world!
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.