Happiness Quotes
We can sometimes love what we do not understand but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
To serve thy generation this thy fate: "Written in water " swiftly fades thy name But he who loves his kind does first or late A work too great for fame.
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
The cure for all ills and wrongs the cares the sorrows and the crimes of humanity all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
There are only two things that are absolute realities love and knowledge and you can't escape them.
Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings and yet be very respectable.
From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get simply to arm ourselves.
Not only is there a right to be happy there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy
False happiness renders men stern and proud and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible and that happiness is always shared.
Happiness happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that you ain't learned nothing.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.
Have a variety of interests. ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live not only longest but happiest.
Build a little fence of trust Around today Fill the space with loving work And therein stay.
This is wisdom: to love wine beauty and the heavenly spring. That's sufficient-the rest is worthless.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.
To make a man happy fill his hands with work his heart with affection his mind with purpose his memory with useful knowledge his future with hope and his stomach with food.
If we could learn how to balance rest against effort calmness against strain quiet against turmoil we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life.
True happiness... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Simplicity clarity singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity Simplicity Sympathy and Serenity.
