Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.
— Ralph Marston
Terrific Personal Happiness quotations
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you.
The average person is either a weakling, or just a happy person who wants to get along, or thinks being tough is having big muscles and strutting around town and having a good-looking girlfriend.
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.
I'm not upset when a person wants to move around, because I want everybody to be happy and I don't want nobody to feel like I'm holding them in a situation they shouldn't be in.
Having a child is an experience that teaches a person how important to prioritize the happiness of another person.Whatever you do, even whatever you are, is an example for him . In fact, that little being who depends on you so much , makes you also to have a huge dependence on him.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
All people go to Allah after their death, but the happy person is the one who goes to Allah while still alive.
You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.
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.
Find something that is a happy, healthy alternative to hurting yourself, as opposed to taking a razor blade to yourself because at the end of the day, you're only hurting the most important person in the world and that's you. And you don't want to hurt that person.
Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.
Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.
For most people to be happy, there has to be a person, place, or thing involved in their happiness. In true happiness, there are no things involved. It's a natural state. You will abide in that state forever.
Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.
I believe four ingredients are necessary for happiness: health, warm personal relations, sufficient means to keep you from want, and successful work.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.
The person who will give you unexplained happiness, will also be the reason for your unexplained sadness.
Every time I hear anyone speak of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or of the Blessed Sacrament I feel an indescribable joy. It is as if a wave of precious memories, sweet affections and joyful hopes swept over my poor person, making me tremble with happiness and filling my soul with tenderness.
The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness
I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting.
All of us every single year, we're a different person.
I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
If you want to be happy, make someone else happy.
If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.
One person cannot change the world. But you can become the world for someone. A warm, bright, and peaceful world. If everyone can be such a world to one person, one will become ten people, and then a hundred. The world will be full of happy people then.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued;
it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.
Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more .
.. to give way to the happiness of the person you love.