Actually, there are
many that think that peace, happiness and love are related - i.e. you can't have
one without the other.
So, loving and peaceful relations with your friends,
family, significant other (AND with yourself) are vital for happiness to exist
inside of you.
That's what some say, anyway.
The thing is, is
there anything more important than love & happiness? I don't think
so. How to achieve them both, though?
Well, rather than give you answers
- which, let's be honest, I don't have - I've compiled a list of happiness quotes
and love quotations (occasionally with my own comments added) to help with your
understanding of this subject.
You'll even find the amazing Marc Brousard singing Al Green's 'Love and Happiness' song - fantastic!
Do get in touch, and let me know what you think!
Love
and Happiness Quotations
Love and happiness - what they (and I) have to
say...
"In life, we must not look to make ourselves happy, but
instead, we must strive to love others and our own happiness will come of their
satisfaction." -- Paul Acquasanta
"The supreme happiness
in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,
loved in spite of ourselves." -- Victor Hugo
"The
Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something
to hope for." -- Allan K. Chalmers
"There is only
one happiness in life, to love and be loved." -- George Sand
(I
understand what George means here, but I'm not sure he's talking about loving
a spouse or partner, but loving a friend or a family member and especially yourself.
And life would be tough if nobody loved you, absolutely no-one - even that
sibling you argue with loves you! Hmm.)
"Happiness cannot be
traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience
of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude." -- Denis
Waitley
(Denis, you win my competition for favourite love & happiness
quote! I think you know you're happy when you notice the little things in life
- a bird singing, the pattern on your wallpaper, strangers having a laugh together,
etc. - and it makes you smile.
"What counts in making a happy relationship
is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility."
-- Daniel Goleman
"It
doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations.
If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the
room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light
and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the
light has been turned on." -- Sharon Salzberg
(Wow, that is
quite profound, Sharon! At least to me. Controlling our capacity for love and
happiness is possible and something you can continue to do once started? Wow! What do you think?)
"Of
all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
-- Bertrand Russell
"Life is to be fortified by many friendships.
To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."
-- Sydney Smith
(I think someone might have copied Sydney's quote (see
above), or maybe it's the other way around? Maybe great minds do think
alike! :-))
"Love is a condition in which the happiness of another
person is essential to your own." -- Robert Heinlein
"Happiness
comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others."
-- Unknown
"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not
only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner
happiness and peace." -- Dalai Lama
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The essentials to happiness are something
to love, something to do, and something to hope for." -- William
Blake
(Hmm, I think I've read that quote before too. Maybe happiness
is not noticing when your spouse or partner starts repeating themselves in conversation!
Hee hee. What do you think?)
"We've
got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love
is more important than anything else!" -- Ken Keyes
(That ego
of ours is a tricky customer to deal with, though. And I'm not a fan of banishing
my ego to the back of beyond, either...)
"Happiness is spiritual,
born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but
requires all mankind to share it." -- Mary Baker Eddy
Love and Happiness - what Marc
Broussard has to say...
I love this YouTube video It helps that I like the
music, I admit (an Al Green cover), but I think the video does a top job of illustrating
the highs and lows of love & happiness also.
What these recommended resources say...
If it's love and happiness
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