quotes for happiness

Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are. ~Osho



Life is a tapestry: We are the warp; angels, the weft; God, the weaver. Only the Weaver sees the whole design. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds. ~Zacharty Bercovitz



The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success. ~Author Unknown



If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything... that smacks of discrimination or slander. ~Mary McLeod Bethune



In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. ~Osbert Sitwell



Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb



Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. ~Fred Woodworth, The Match!, No. 79



Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself. ~Giorgio Baglivi



Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism. ~Leo Buscaglia



Now we know what Daddy bought George W. for Christmas. ~Author Unknown



It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well. ~J.K. Rowling, "King's Cross," Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



And the Easter bells be ringing! ~Edna Dean Proctor, "Easter Bells"



I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance," 1841



I was called "Rembrandt" Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. ~Bob Hope



We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us. ~Andy Barrie, Canadians to Americans



Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are. ~Marsha Norman



As to the adjective, when in doubt, strike it out. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894



The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~Bill Beattie