Quotes About Simple Things And Happiness

#1. Happiness can be a simple thing just like dreaming of someone you've missed for a long time.

Jhane Barnes

#2. While imprisoned in the shed Pierre had learned not with his intellect but with his whole being, by life itself, that man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity. And

Leo Tolstoy

#3. Live by your own sacred standard.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Happiness, after all, is found in the simplest of things.

Steve Maraboli

#5. Happy people tend to be those who take pleasure in simple things.

Auliq Ice

#6. A Godly Person Is Living Simple And Yet Happy
An Ungodly Person Is Living Luxuriously And Yet So Sad

Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo

#7. Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple
truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your
most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the
key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in
life.

Brian Tracy

#8. An honest and wise man is always a very simple man.

Debasish Mridha

#9. We wonder what true happiness would be like. Not realizing that one simple thought connected to our hearts can make the difference between us wondering and experiencing it.

Monica Dumont

#10. The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.

Hugh Prather

#11. The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

Jim Harrison

#12. It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.

Maria V. Snyder

#13. There's another wonderful Italian expression: l'arte d'arrangiarsi-the art of making something out of nothing. The art of turning a few simple ingredients into a feast,or a few gathered friends into a festival. Anyone with a talent of happiness can do this, not only the rich.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

Joanne Harris

#16. There are no simple congruities in life or history. The cult of happiness erroneously assumes them.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#17. Human happiness does not seem to have been included in the design of creation. It is only we with our capacity to love that fives meaning to the indifferent universe, and yet most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even to find joy from simple things.

Woody Allen

#18. Joy is found in the simple and ordinary things of life: the smile of a newborn baby, the kiss from a sweet new puppy, and the warm sunshine on a spring day.

Marie Cornelio

#19. Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Carl Jung

#20. I have never been drawn to luxury. I love the simple things; coffee shops, books, and people who try to understand.

R. YS Perez

#21. Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. if she'd learned nothing else over the past few years, she knew that things were not always as they appeared. Success and money had nothing to do with happiness. Hustle and bustle didn't mean better. And simple wasn't synonymous with boring.

Laura Bradford

#23. Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.

Anton Chekhov

#24. Eddie told her he had made things square and her eyebrows lifted and her lips spread and Eddie felt and old, warm feeling he had missed for years, the simple act of making his wife happy

Mitch Albom

#25. Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple.

Debasish Mridha

#26. The formula is simple enough. If you want more headaches and misery in your life, keep complaining, they're on the way. If you want happiness and joy, give your attention to the things you are grateful for, and then sit back and watch them grow.

D.S. Luca

#27. If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more.

Patrick Dixon

#28. Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.

Andrea Hirata

#29. The more loving, kind and simple we are, the more we resemble the God.

Debasish Mridha

#30. To be a winner in life, be simple and be kind.
You will win the heart and you will win the mind.

Debasish Mridha

#31. Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.

Steve Maraboli

#32. A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.

Robert Genn

#33. Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the
simple and beautiful things around him.

Billy Graham

#34. His hand lay across my stomach as he slept soundly. I entwined my fingers with his and breathed through the warmth that seeped through my chest. Such a simple, sweet thing to do, yet holding hands in bed was incredibly intimate.

N.R. Walker

#35. Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.

Walter Raleigh

#36. The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding these two extremes, leads to peace of mind, wisdom, & complete liberation from the dissatisfactions of life.

Henepola Gunaratana

#37. Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

J. Donald Walters

#38. Thankfulness is the life of contentment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. Happiness is self-generated. It depends on one's attitude of mind. The basis of happiness, is the simple fact that the deepest reality of our own nature is ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new joy.

Goswami Kriyananda

#40. The point of simple living, for me has got to be:
A soft place to land
A wide margin of error
Room to breathe
Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day

Leo Babauta

#41. Simple kindness can move the world.

Debasish Mridha

#42. The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.

Baltasar Gracian

#43. There's no simple aritmetic for life's distribution of happiness and sorrow, no such thing as a standard share.

Peter Hoeg Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

#44. Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.

Robin Sharma

#45. We take simple preferences and turn them into conditions for our own happiness.

Richard Carlson

#46. At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit ... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise; as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

#47. My philosophy of life is very simple; I want to be very simple, loving, and kind.

Debasish Mridha

#48. When you are happy with what you have, you are the happiest.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#49. Life is simple if simplicity is your passion.

Debasish Mridha

#50. In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

H.P. Lovecraft

#51. When you are very simple, honest, and kind, people may take advantage of you and cheat you, but be loving and kind. Remember that no one can cheat you except you and yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#52. Life is simple; WE create the complexity.

Steve Maraboli