Happiness and Joy

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

Yes, there is a nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

It proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Cheerfulness, like spring, opens all the blossoms of the inward man.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes to simply be human. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate. Meredith Grey ABOUT THE AUTHOR B. Ashiedu lives in the UK with her awesome husband. She enjoys exploring museums and new places with her husband.

If you want to find happiness, find gratitude. Steve Maraboli

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend. When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present; love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure; the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. Sarah Breathnach

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

How singular is the thing called pleasure, and how curiously related to pain, which might be thought to be the opposite of it; for they never come to a man together, and yet he who pursues either of them is generally compelled to take the other. They are two, and yet they grow together out of one head or stem.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

What is it that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man’s breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence, no matter where the obstacles are encountered.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

Beauty is only a promise of happiness.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

It isn’t what a man has that constitutes wealth. No—it is to be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.