Quotes about happiness
happiness giving-up disappointment
Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight. Fanny Burney
happiness character mean
If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word [of honor] is God in man." Ezra Taft Benson
happiness gratitude grateful
The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.
happiness contentment joyful
One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. Eugene O'Neill
happiness wisdom humility
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. Francis Bacon
happiness new-beginnings loss
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
happiness practice moral
The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter. George Washington
happiness government law
Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.
happiness joy littles
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn. George Santayana
happiness happy determination
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
happiness laughter mad
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
happiness nature grateful
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.
happiness believe passion
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
happiness succeed standards
The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed.
happiness men unhappy
Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once. Fyodor Dostoevsky
happiness love-you what-matters
You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.
happiness strong pain
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness. F. Scott Fitzgerald
happiness home wife
It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family. George Porter
happiness contentment half
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment. George Edward Woodberry
happiness wisdom laughter
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. George Eliot
happiness littles private-life
Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves very little trace in history. Fernand Braudel
happiness essentials doe
I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas. Flannery O'Connor
happiness thinking mysterious
Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.
happiness done demographics
There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true. Fiona Shaw
happiness laughter knowing
It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss. Henry Miller
happiness limits conquest
Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love. Henri Frederic Amiel
happiness believe grace
Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.
happiness moon shining
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
happiness heart joy
What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness? Helen Keller
happiness kindness sadness
Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.
happiness time women
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
happiness inspiring perseverance
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
happiness believe has-beens
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. Franz Schubert