Quotes about happiness
happiness inspiring laughter
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. Charles Dickens
happiness money business
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
happiness law-of-attraction chains
We forge the chains we wear in life.
happiness delight tricks
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
happiness kings ambition
If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition. Charles Caleb Colton
happiness poverty bread
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
happiness clouds broken
What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.
happiness mistake ambition
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
happiness men views
Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.
happiness mind faces
Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
happiness mazes routes
Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.
happiness time he-makes-me-happy
The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
happiness gratitude strong
Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.
happiness morning would-be
Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?
happiness blessed home
When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!
happiness death future
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death. Alan Watts
happiness peace laughter
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another. Alan Alda
happiness mean would-be
By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature. Edith Sitwell
happiness happy women
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton
happiness wings feels
I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.
happiness running mind
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
happiness world littles
In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.
happiness alive literature
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
happiness two mirrors
There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.
happiness fate thinking
What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.
happiness lonely art
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being. David Hume
happiness feelings three
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.
happiness pursuit uncertainty-of-life
When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.
happiness suits excellent
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
happiness investment praise
To praise is an investment in happiness. David Dunn
happiness mistake pebbles
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road. Beatrice Wood
happiness fire forever
Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height. August Strindberg
happiness flames august
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.