Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
— Albert Schweitzer
Unexpected Happiness Love quotations
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done.
One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
Happiness is that you have three things: something you do, something you love, and something you aspire to.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.
Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
The purpose of life is not to be happy.
It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
On the British Royal Divorce (Charles and Dianna).
She is such a sad soul. It is good that it is over. Nobody was happy anyhow. I know I should preach family love and unity, but in their case. . . .
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.
Whenever you can, act as a liberator.
Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die.
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry.
Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.
Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.
We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you.
To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime!
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
You are my sunrise. Your smile lights up my world. I could give anything just to see you happy. True love is not in getting things from others but in giving and sharing more and more.
Foolish, selfish people are always thinking of themselves and the result is always negative. Wise persons think of others, helping them as much as they can, and the result is happiness. Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and others. Through your kindness to others, your mind and heart will open to peace.
A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility
If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
We are not the same persons this year as last;
nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They hate themselves 2) They want to be you 3) They see you as a threat When you love yourself you are incapable of hating anyone no matter what they've done.