Quotes of: Being-happy Keyword

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

When we don’t allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.

Safe Haven

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

Middlesex

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

Middlemarch

After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

The Museum of Innocence

She discovered, when it was too late, that she had mistaken the means for the end—that riches, rightly used, are instruments of happiness, but are not in themselves happiness.

Nightmare Abbey

Aha! #20 It's not what happens to you in life, it's what you do with what happens that counts.

The Napkin The Melon & The Monkey: How to Be Happy and Successful by Simply Changing Your Mind

Look for Joy: that's God's echo, and his footprint. Happiness . . . happiness and wittiness and cleverness do not count for much when the darkness falls. Joy is tougher.

Nobody's Son

This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.

The Lovely Bones

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

No one would dream of expecting a single individual to be "happy"—once someone is married, however, everyone is very astonished when he is not happy!

Letters on Life

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

Little Women

Acceptance is the letter sealed within the envelope of inner peace. - Charmainism

Shake Hands with Yourself: A Peacemaker's Guide to Happiness & Inner Peace

I think happy thoughts and feel happy things and I do not let myself near the swirling black edges of the hole that is my soul when I look at them.

Perfect Lies

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

The Pursuit of Happiness: 21 Spiritual Rules to Sucess