Happiness Quotes
The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself.
When we really sit back with a smile on our face is when we run into a situation we can understand, where the facts are ascertainable and clear, and the course of action obvious.
All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.
Arrange photographs of nature scenes, animals and expressions of joy and love in your environment and let their energy radiate into your heart and provide you with their higher frequency.
Each person on this planet is inherently, intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.
He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.
But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.
The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.
The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.
I have fun. I enjoy my life. And I was hardwired for a deep connection between service, God, and happiness. You kind of need all of those things to be in play for one to have the others.
Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.
A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.
Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.
If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.
Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.
And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.
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The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].
The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.
Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.
All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.
The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.
Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.
But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.
If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.
The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.
Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.
