What Is Happiness Quotes
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.
Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!
Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.
He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness.
I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when it comes to happiness, spirituality, economics and creative genius.
All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.
A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.
Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.
Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us.
Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.
My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, I'm bound to be happy always.
Happiness is self-generated as the mind becomes still. As we become involved with the desires of the world, we lose that centering, that stillness.
There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness.
Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
Since inner peace is the source of all happiness, we can see how important meditation is.
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.