Browsing Quotes With Tag: happiness (55)
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Christ is against selfishness and sin—not because He is the giant spoilsport, but the other way around. He is against sin and selfishness because He is against despondency and melancholy and morbidity. He is against the shrinking of our capacity for fulfillment.
Speaker: Truman MadsenSource: "The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength," BYU, 21 November 2000Posted: 09 Sep 2011 at 8:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“No matter how we live, there will be pain in this world. But misery is optional.”
Speaker: Marion D. HanksPosted: 09 Sep 2011 at 8:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Put negatively, if you seek your own immediate gratification and ignore, neglect, or, worse, exploit others, you will not find joy. You will find a chimera. And if you persist, you will find misery. You cannot find joy that way any more than you can jump off your own shadow.
(Chimera: A fanciful mental illusion or fabrication.)Speaker: Truman MadsenSource: "The Joy of the Lord Is Your Strength," BYU, 21 November 2000Posted: 09 Sep 2011 at 8:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You have the right to work, but for the work’s sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work. Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working. Never give way to laziness, either.
Perform every action with your heart fixed on the Supreme Lord. Renounce attachment to the fruits. Be even-tempered in success and failure …
Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. ...
They who work selfishly for results are miserable.Speaker: Bhagavad GitaSource: Puck's QuotesPosted: 19 Jun 2011 at 1:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Blessedness is defined as being higher than happiness. “Happiness comes from without and is dependent on circumstances; blessedness is an inward fountain of joy in the soul itself, which no outward circumstances can seriously affect.”
Speaker: President Harold B. LeeSource: Constitution for a Perfect LifePosted: 23 Feb 2011 at 10:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving
Speaker: Lao TzuSource: http://zenhabits.net/no-goal/Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 5:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water
Speaker: Zen proverbPosted: 12 Apr 2010 at 3:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“My other piece of advice, Copperfield,” said Mr. Micawber, “you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expendicture nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”
Speaker: Charles DickensSource: David CopperfieldPosted: 13 Feb 2010 at 7:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A happy family is but an earlier heaven
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 03 Jan 2010 at 8:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have found that the ends may indeed justify the means, but our experience, what we live, is the means. My family is the means. My life is the means. The end is just death.
Speaker: Rolf GatesSource: Death and BirthPosted: 26 Dec 2009 at 10:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Posted: 24 Jun 2009 at 2:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I really believe that a man and a woman together, raising a family, is the purest form of happiness we can experience.
Speaker: Will SmithPosted: 28 Apr 2009 at 11:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Think to thank. These three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, a formula for enduring friendships, and a pattern for personal happiness.
Speaker: Thomas S. MonsonPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In vain do they talk of happiness, who never suppressed an impulse for a principle.
Speaker: Marvin J. AshtonPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Happiness doesn’t come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
...Becoming in obscurity and through obscurity the star around which an angel gravitates – there are few felicities to equal this.
The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself.Speaker: Victor HugoSource: Les MiserablesPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Speaker: Anne FrankPosted: 09 Feb 2009 at 8:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We think we’re not happy because of what we’re not getting; but really, we are not happy because of what we are not GIVING.
Speaker: MarianneSource: A guest on the Oprah showPosted: 14 Jan 2009 at 9:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!