“Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. And don’t worry about socializing with everyone else. Relationships make everyone happier, introverts included, but think quality over quantity.” – Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Tag: Happiness Quotes
“The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal.” – Francois Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness
“True understanding is deeper in meaning than in mere words and is important for its result, not pretty rhetoric. Those who can verbalize their happiness have little happiness to speak of. My true love has grown so much that I can’t tell even half of it in words.” – Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
“Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within.” – Helen Keller
“Learn about yourself and what makes you happy while the sailing is smooth. When the waves swell up and get rough, you have the memories of the times you were happy. You’ve been there and done that, so you know it’s possible to do it again.” – Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project
“The business of the wise man is to be happy….in whatever condition life happens to offer.” – Samuel Johnson
“Just because something is fun for someone else doesn’t make it fun for you.” – Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project
“Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.” – Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project
“Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.” – Mark Twain, writer and humorist
“Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine — a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time, a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing, a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come, believe in them. They reflect your true nature.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, spiritual teacher and humanitarian, Happy For No Reason
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