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21 Simple Truths About Happiness That Will Lead You Confidently Into The New Year

"Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself." <br /> -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Marisa Donnelly
December 29, 2016
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.”
— John Barrymore, No Title
Tagged: Happiness, Excitment, Life, Loving Life
“ You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil And Miss Prym
Tagged: Happiness, Joy, Pain, Suffering, Accepting Happiness, Paradise, Hell
“Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them. Imagine all the wondrous things your mind might embrace if it weren’t wrapped so tightly around your struggles. Always look at what you have, instead of what you have lost. Because it’s not what the world takes away from you that counts; it’s what you do with what you have left.”
— Unknown, Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them. Imagine all the wondrous things your mind might embrace if it weren’t wrapped so tightly around your struggles. Always look...
“ Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mindset so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts.”
— Ellen Degeneres, Seriously...I'm Kidding
Tagged: Happiness, Optimism
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
Tagged: Happiness, Light, Darkness
“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.”
— Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Tagged: Happiness, Friendship, Friends
“The difference between misery & happiness depends on what we do with our attention.”
— Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness (Shambhala Classics)
Tagged: Positivity, Misery, Happiness, Psychologists
“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda, Unworthy: How to Stop Hating Yourself
Tagged: Future, live in the moment, Stress, worry
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Tagged: Happiness, Effort, Blessings, travel
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama XIV, Dalai Lama XIV: How to See Yourself as You Really Are (Paperback); 2007 Edition
Tagged: Happiness
“Claim ownership of your dreams.”
— Chris Gardner, The Pursuit Of Happyness
Tagged: Happiness, Happiness Quotes, Pursuing Happiness, The future, Finding Yourself, Moving Foward, strength, Overcoming Obstacles
“You know how mountains get moved? Everyone who can move a couple, move a couple. Those who can move rocks, move rocks. Those who can move boulders, move boulders. That’s how mountains get moved. If every one of us did everything we could, I believe we would be in a different world.”
— Chris Gardner, The Pursuit Of Happyness
Tagged: Happiness, Happiness Quotes, Pursuing Happiness, The future, Finding Yourself, Moving Foward, strength, Overcoming Obstacles
“If you have given up hope of ever being happy, cheer up. Never lose hope. Your soul, being a reflection of the ever joyous Spirit, is, in essence, happiness itself.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda, Secrets Of Lasting Happiness
Tagged: Christianity, Faith, God, Relationship With God, Divine Connection, Happiness, Happiness Quotes, Happy
“Happiness depends to some extent upon external conditions, but chiefly upon mental attitudes.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda, Secrets Of Lasting Happiness
Tagged: Happy, Happiness, Happiness Quotes
“Change your thoughts if you wish to change your circumstances. Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda, Secrets Of Lasting Happiness
Tagged: Happiness, Happy Thoughts, Happiness Quotes
“Constantly you affirm sorrow, therefore it exists. Deny it in your mind and it will exist no longer.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda, Secrets Of Lasting Happiness
Tagged: Happiness, Happiness Quotes, Happy
“If you do not choose to be happy no one can make you happy. Do not blame God for that! And if you choose to be happy, no one can make you unhappy. If He had not given us freedom to use our own will, we could blame Him when we are unhappy, but He did give us that freedom. It is we who make of life what it is.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda, Secrets Of Lasting Happiness
Tagged: Christianity, Faith, God, Relationship With God, Divine Connection
“Persons of strong character are usually the happiest. They do not blame others for troubles that can usually be traced to their own actions and lack of understanding. They know that no one has any power to add to their happiness or detract from it unless they themselves are so weak that they allow the adverse thoughts and wicked actions of others to affect them.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda, Secrets Of Lasting Happiness
Tagged: Happiness, Positive Thinking, Happiness Quotes
“Regardless of religion, creed, belief or non-belief, may we all find common ground in the New Year by aligning with this universal principle, choosing to bring loving motivations to all we think, say and do. Love is our common birthright, our Divine calling to lasting peace, joy and success together as one family, one nation and one world.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
Tagged: Christianity, Faith, God, Relationship With God, Divine Connection, God Is Love, Joyful God
“Avoid a negative approach to life. Why gaze down the sewers when there is loveliness all around us? One may find some fault in even the greatest masterpieces of art, music, and literature. But isn’t it better to enjoy their charm and glory?”
— Paramahansa Yogananda, Secrets Of Lasting Happiness
Tagged: Happiness, Happy Thoughts, Happiness Quotes, Avoiding Negativity
“You can conquer your moods, no matter how terrible they seem. Make up your mind that you are not going to be moody anymore; and if a mood comes in spite of your resolve, analyze the cause that brought it on, and do something constructive about it.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda, Secrets Of Lasting Happiness
Tagged: Happiness, Happy Thoughts, Happiness Quotes, Avoiding Negativity