What Is Happiness Quotes

Fear less hope more eat less chew more whine less breathe more talk less say more love more and all good things will be yours.

Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can At all the times you can.

Accept the pain cherish the joys resolve the regrets then can come the best of benedictions-"If I had my life to live over I'd do it all the same."

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

Virtue like a dowerless beauty has more admirers than followers.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and truly laid.

Though language forms the preacher 'Tis "good works" make the man.

All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.

What you become is what counts.

Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see like a rainbow or feel like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.

Seek not outside yourself heaven is within.

If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

It's what you do that makes your soul not the other way around.

I think the inner person is the most important. ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death.

There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing.

I am convinced that we must train not only the head but the heart and hand as well.

Live virtuously and you cannot die too soon or live too long.

People see God every day they just don't recognize Him.

We hear voices in solitude we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized it is a quality of thought a state of mind.

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp but if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.

To seek after beauty as an end is a wild goose chase a will-o'-the-wisp because it is to misunderstand the very nature of beauty which is the normal condition of a thing being as it should be.

This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea that very thing happiness which I have been pursuing all my life and have never yet overtaken.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband only another man would make me think that way.

A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Those who seek happiness miss it and those who discuss it lack it.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of unhappiness.

The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.

Everyone chases after happiness not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

Seek to do good and you will find that happiness will run after you.

Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles safe on her nose all the time.

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Happiness is not a horse you cannot harness it.

The principles we live by in business and in social life are the most important part of happiness.

If you aren't good at loving yourself you will have a difficult time loving anyone since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Let how you live your life stand for something no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Happy is the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.

Resolve to be thyself and know that who finds himself loses his misery.

There is only one history of any importance and it is the history of what you once believed in and the history of what you came to believe in.