Happiness Quotes
Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.
forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.
One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books
You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!
The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.
What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.
She had never imagined she had the power to make someone else so happy. And not a magical power, either--a purely human one.
Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.
I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.
Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.
I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.
It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.
When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.
The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally.
They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple.