Happiness Quotes
Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.
We can't wait to be happy until we remove one hundred percent of suffering. That moment will never exist.
To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.
Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.
Eden is that old-fashioned House We dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode Until we drive away.
Love I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go and it makes the end so easy.
All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.
We all live with the objective of being happy our lives are all different and yet the same.
The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us but is always the result of a good conscience good health occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.
Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health out of debt and has a clear conscience?
Order your soul reduce your wants live in charity associate in Christian community obey the laws trust in Providence.
The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous he is free from anxieties wise he is free from perplexities bold he is free from fear.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
Few persons realize how much of their happiness such as it is is dependent upon their work.
