Happiness Quotes
I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.
Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.
The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.
I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.
I start thinking about the next movie before it's a success, so I can never have one moment of happiness or peace. I'm instantly thinking about the next one.
A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.
Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.
Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, ‘God, wasn't it wonderful.’
Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.
If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.
Happiness is just a great equalizer. It's like water. You pour happiness liberally and all sorts of great things are going to happen.
If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.
I think that's all I want in life, just like peace and be able to make music and like have happiness when it's time off. Spend time with people and family, whatever.
We´re two, two for everything, for love, life, for a fight and pain, for hours of happiness. Two for wins and losses, for life and for death - TWO!
Oooh! Stop that. When you smile at me I want all of it." "What?" He looked confused
But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton
I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.
Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.
The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.
Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.
The past is dead; The future is imaginary; Happiness can only be in the Eternal Now Moment.
My life is great because I made it that way. Anything other than happiness doesn't get a pass key.
Whoever said money can't buy happiness wasn't spending it helping people who needed it.
I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.
I think that the early feminism at least overlooked the fact that partnership and children can provide happiness. It isn't the only way but for very many people it is the most important way.
As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.
But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.
In workout keep the balance between health and happiness - and also to choose the exercises that you love most so it doesn't seem so hard.
My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will.
There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.
I made an important decision, which was to pursue happiness. Rather than accept unhappiness. That's why I'm here, and it's great. I'm in a very good place in my life.
