The Key to Happiness

 

The Key to Happiness 


You deserve to be happy, in fact each one on us deserve to be happy,  the rules of being happy are fairly simple , much has been written and much  will be written to help and guide for right path and thought.

 Here,  I am re-sharing word of Wisdom shared by great scholars, thinkers, leaders. 

Read them , read them slowly,  relate with it ,understand it  each quote is power house in-itself and hold potential to change the way we approach 

Wishing you happiness and bliss, happy reading 

1.      Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
Buddha

2.       “If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”
Chinese Proverb

3.      “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.”
Dale Carnegie

4.       “Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”
Stacey Charter

5.      “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Mahatma Gandhi

6.       “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.”
Frederick Keonig

7.       “There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
Seneca


8.       “Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”
Dennis Waitley

9.       “The only joy in the world is to begin.”
Cesare Pavese

10. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go”
Oscar Wilde

11.  “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
Marthe Troly-Curtin

12.   “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
Herman Cain

13.  “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
Confucius

14.   “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
Dalai Lama

15.   “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”
Marcel Pagnol

16.   “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
Confucius

17.  “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

18.  “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”
Mary Lou Retton

19.  “I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.”
Dalai Lama

20. “Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.”
John Henry Jowett

21.  “Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”
Joseph Campbell

22.  “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.”
Mark Twain

23. “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
Helen Keller

24.  “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller

25. “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
Winston Churchill