Best happiness & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Life is not a malfunction. It's beautiful. But if you do not see it that way, it's simply because your room needs cleaning.”

Ifs Way Needs Beautiful Happiness Life Is Rooms Buddhism Cleaning Your Room Malfunction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.”

Ifs Knows Might Happiness Life Is Buddhism Asking Asking Why

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't see what this moment is. You won't realize its beauty.”

Ifs Mind States Moments Happiness Realizing Buddhism State Of Mind Obscure Live In The Moment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.”

People Ifs Happiness Spirit Honest Buddhism Make You Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.”

Ifs Want Happiness Courses Buddhism Sitting Unhappy Not Happy Sitting Around Want To Be Happy Being Unhappy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My god, life is beautiful! Look at the colors! if you are blind, look at the colors of your mind.”

Ifs Mind Looks Beautiful Happiness Life Is Color Buddhism Blind God Life Life Is Beautiful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.”

Ifs Shows Happiness Games Doors Buddhism Picks Unhappy Make You Happy Game Shows Daily Experience

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Let us say your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend makes you happy. If they leave, you're bound to be unhappy. You are the slave of the thing that makes you happy. You are a junkie and human relationships can be expensive habits.”

Ifs Humans Happiness Wife Buddhism Habit Husband Slave Bounds Unhappy Girlfriend Expensive Make You Happy Human Relations Human Relationships Junkie

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.”

Ifs Mind States Would Be Able Happiness Saws Buddhism Keys Perception State Of Mind Key To Happiness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.”

Ifs Matter Light Happiness Successful Dying Buddhism Enlightenment Prison Contact Pathways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get; it's what you can give.”

Ifs Giving Self Happiness Love Is Buddhism Discovery Forgotten Self Discovery

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Let the rain of unhappy and tragic experiences fall, as sometimes it inevitably must, even in the lives of the enlightened masters. If your mind has become one with nirvana, you will remain happy at all times.”

Ifs Mind Sometimes Happiness Fall Masters Buddhism Rain Unhappy All Time Tragic Enlightened

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.”

Ifs Happiness Pleasure Deals Buddhism Enjoyable Transient Satiation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up in life that they forget the purpose of life is to be happy.”

People Ifs Sometimes Hard Happiness Life Is Purpose Forget Buddhism Caught Purpose Of Life Caught Up Fog

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is something that you don't postpone. If you are postponing happiness - it is something you will probably never experience much of.”

Ifs Happiness Buddhism Postponing

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is like focusing on happiness for several hours as you are walking around.”

Ifs Mind Happiness Hours Five Meditation Minutes Buddhism Walking Focused Five Minutes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.”

Ifs Mind States Happiness Grows Focus Buddhism Unhappy State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?”

Ifs Doe Happiness Desire Buddhism Ten Factors Fulfillment Apples Why Not Pie Make You Happy Apple Pie Satiation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Happiness Buddhism Definitions Not Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time. Take it from the Zen Master. He knows.”

Ifs Thinking Knows May Happiness Powerful Masters Buddhism Letting Go Waste Noble Horrible Wealthy Wasting Time Truthful Demonic Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.”

Ifs Trying May Happiness Used Chance Steps Buddhism Pure Used To Be Motive Chances Are Meditating Skip Vibrate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.”

Ifs Littles Pain Happiness Sides Buddhism Complainers Whiners

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we immerse ourselves in the ultimate good, we will have this silly smile on our face or perhaps just inside our hearts. That is what illumination is.”

Ifs Heart Happiness Faces Buddhism Ultimate Silly Illumination

Author:Frederick Lenz

“To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.”

Ifs Action Happiness Next Acting Failure Substitutes Next Time

Author:Smiley Blanton

“If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.”

Ifs Has Beens Earth Happiness Born Planets Supposed To Be Planet Earth Picnics

Author:Jonathan Cainer

“The true American dream not only provides the freedom to use your gifts and talents to achieve your highest goal but also gives you the freedom to fulfill your purpose in life. You are meant to work in ways that suit you, drawing on your natural talents and gifts. This work, when you find it and commit to it - even if only as a hobby - is the key to happiness.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.”

“If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.”

Ifs Happiness Order Attraction Law Of Attraction

Book:You Can Have What You Want

Source: You Can Have What You Want

“We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.”

Ifs Past Happiness Letting Go Want To Be Happy

Author:Lester Levenson

“Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?'”

People Ifs Men Stills Would Be Happiness Guy Powerful Imagine Streets Powerful Man

Author:Jim Carrey

“If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.”

Ifs Problem Happiness Artist

Author:Willem de Kooning

“If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardour and paradoxes - than our travels.”

Ifs Happiness Our Lives Activity Paradox Quests Dynamics Searching For Happiness

Author:Alain de Botton

“Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they will fill you with happiness.”

Ifs Art Hands Happiness Materials Assured

Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.”

Ifs Happiness Causes Goal Products Commitment Worthy Worthy Causes

Book:The Power of Positive Living

Source: The Power of Positive Living

“If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.”

“You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.”

Ifs Happiness Joy Given Laughing Special Laughter Smile Luxury Birthday Wise Birthday Smile And Laugh Special Gifts Smile Laugh

Author:Brad Garrett

“If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.”

Ifs Happiness Kings Ambition Filled Determine Noble Accomplishment Territory Smallest Too Short Dominion Life Too Short

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.”

Ifs Life Might Happiness Dark Shadow Sunshine Life Happiness Gloomy

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists--merely in the imagination.”

Ifs Wells May Happens Happiness Imagination Rejoice Lament

Book:The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791)

Source: The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1769-1791)

“If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.”

Source: Happiness

“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”

“Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.”

Ifs Way Mind Today Past Happiness Joy Literature Realizing Lines Tomorrow Wave Refuse Loyalty Withdrawal

Author:Andre Gide

“If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.”

Ifs Reality Happiness Success Fear Understanding Inspiring Perseverance Women Empowerment Empowering Women Black Motivational

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.”

Ifs Should Believe Happiness Found I Believe Silent Bitter Unhappiness Discussing

Book:Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life

Source: Happiness - Essays On The Meaning Of Life

“If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.”

Ifs Men Funny Happiness Alive Right Now Witty If I Could Oxymoron Happiest Man Funny Oxymoron

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?”

Ifs Happiness Paradise Serpent

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.”

Ifs Feels Happiness Wings If I Could

Book:The Reef: American Literature

Source: The Reef: American Literature

“Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.”

Ifs World Happiness This World Complaining Portions

Book:Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life 1795-1835

Source: Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life 1795-1835

“God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.”

Ifs Believe Happiness I Believe Heaven Perfect Dog Gods Will My Dog Being There Perfect Happiness Dog Heaven Heaven And Dogs

Author:Billy Graham

“Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do.”

Ifs Needs Should Happiness Joy Enjoy Our Lives Extras Joyful Intervals Extra Time

Book:Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings

Source: Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings

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