#happines

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#enjoy #moments #seize #surprise #take

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#intellect #nothing #obvious #perhaps #saying

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#create #help #ones #our #own

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ↗

— George Orwell

#exist #happiness #only

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#battles #consists #fighting #happiness #itself

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#character #cultivated #happiness #like #moment

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#bring #buying #happiness #horrible #interested

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. ↗

— William James

#bring #happiness #may #without

Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#encouragement #gossip #happiness #life #experience

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period. ↗

— Suge Knight

#am #anybody #bona #bona fide #everything