Happiness Quotes
Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.
How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.
Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.
Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.
The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.
If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?
This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way.
No one thought of anything but themselves. My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another, and that's what people today are incapable of
Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.
According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.
Few persons realize how much of their happiness, such as it is, is dependent upon their work.
Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.
Rest assured that if you work every day at your art, using the materials nearest at hand, you will gradually discover such beauty in them that they will fill you with happiness.
What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.
I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'
Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.
It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.
The best use anyone can make of any day is to enjoy it - and then spread that joy to others.
Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.
Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.
God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.
To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy.
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.
High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.
The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.
As it's your 40th birthday This, we'd like to say May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness On this, your special day.
You've travelled through life together Enjoying years of wedded bliss We congratulate you on reaching And we toast your happiness
Congratulations on your well deserved retirement, Wishing you every happiness in the years ahead. No lying about your age, more lying around the house After lying much longer in bed
Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.
America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.
Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?