Quotes about happiness
happiness positivity doe
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within Helen Keller
happiness determination bad-ass
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done. Helen Keller
happiness lying reality
Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings. The great, enduring realities are love of service. Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulty. 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. Helen Keller
happiness happy wise
No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. Helen Keller
happiness thinking firsts
Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves. Helen Keller
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. Helen Keller
happiness years how-to-be-happy
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy. George Eliot
happiness misery worst
The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery. George Eliot
happiness smile kindness
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. George Eliot
happiness inspiring perseverance
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. George Eliot
happiness healing positivity
No medicine cures what happiness cannot. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
happiness achievement great-achievement
happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement. Francoise Sagan
happiness moments stealing
Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche. Chris Hardwick
happiness men needs
There is a myth, sometimes widespread, that a person need only do inner work...that a man is entirely responsible for his own problems; and that to cure himself, he need only change himself....The fact is, a person is so formed by his surroundings, that his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings. Christopher Alexander
happiness smile sad
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. Christina Rossetti
happiness happy joy
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
happiness insecure age
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
happiness smile laughter
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. J. B. Priestley
happiness children delight
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. J. B. Priestley
happiness men long
So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man. J. C. Ryle
happiness truth laughter
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche
happiness loneliness sadness
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine. Friedrich Nietzsche
happiness children real
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. Friedrich Nietzsche
happiness
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth? Friedrich Nietzsche
happiness feel-good feels
Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do? Jim Carrey
happiness powerful men
Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there? Jim Carrey
happiness believe thinking
I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American and in every community has a right to pursue happiness. Jeb Bush
happiness dad father
Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed. Jennifer Grant
happiness talent sole
Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith. Jean-Paul Sartre
happiness happy joy
To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness. Georges Bernanos
happiness poison fruit
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison. Georges Bataille