Inspiring Thoughts on Happiness, Part 1

Thoughts on HappinessLife may have some thorns like the cactus but we could make it better, beautiful and wonderful if we choose to. It is opt to us.Be Happy! Turn your speakers on!

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The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone and gratitude for everything. Happiness is a perfume we cannot pour on others, without getting a few drops on ourselves.

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We spend most of our life running after things, doing things. We forget that being comes before doing. If we make an effort to be well discover that life helps and brings whatever is needed. Learning to be, is learning to be at peace and learning to be happy. It is our most fundamental human nature.

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Happiness cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, nor stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.4

Lets have a little laugh at life and look around us for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter gets us out of unhappy situations. Even in our darkest moment, we usually can find something to laugh about if we try hard enough.

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Fear feeds on insecurity, feeling of loss, loneliness, inadequacy and attachment.The secret of happiness is to be free of fear. Fear is like a toxin that runs through much of our thinking. 6

We dont need anything to be happy. Its something that comes from inside, and when we radiate a happy energy , well be amazed what it attracts into our life. Lets decide now to be happy, and watch magic begin to enter our life.

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Happiness is what we make it. Some people are unbelievably cheerful in the midst of difficulty or obstacles.Those who look for the upside of any trouble are the ones who come out ahead in quality of life. -Chloe West

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It is no use to grumble and complain; it's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; when God sorts out the weather and sends rain.Why, rain's my choice.-James Whitcomb Riley

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Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time byemploying it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success .~Louisa May Alcott

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No one is in control o f your happiness but you, therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. ~Barbara De Angelis

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Live for the joy of it. Live for the love of it. Its never irresponsible to truly enjoy your moments. Joy is a gift you give to life that comes back to you. Give it often and give it freely. Then find even more joyin the positive difference it makes. ~Ralph Marston

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.-The Dalai LamaI am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. -Martha Washington

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy, and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. ~Helen Keller

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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. -Hugh Downs

Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. -Henry Van Dyke

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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ~ Thich Nhat HanhHappiness is not having all the answers but listening closely to the questions of the heart.

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True peace and happiness can beexperienced only when we stopgiving and taking sorrow.

In order not to give sorrow ,we need a clear heart that has no ill feelings .

And for not taking sorrow .we need a big heart that can tolerate and help other souls to get over their weaknesses.

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Welcome the new day as another special gift from our Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what we were no able to finish yesterday. Decide to be joyful and happy for today will never happen again. By planting seeds of peace and happiness deep in the heart, we create a garden of good wishes.

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Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms. -Ding LingTime spent laughing is time spent with the gods.-Japanese Proverb19

Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing.

If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing.

You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice. -Osho20

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive-Eleonora Duse21

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.-Marcel Proust

Happiness held is seed. Happiness shared is flower.-John HarriganSerenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.--Unknown

To many of us, happiness is that simple, homely and unpretentious life ; in loving, and in sharing our God-given gifts.It is what we scatter not what we gather that tell s the life we have. So share, reach out, smile, hug

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