Quotes about happiness
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?
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
happiness dream simple
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain. George Sand
happiness lying consciousness
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
happiness feelings resistance
Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome. Friedrich Nietzsche
happiness goal lines
My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
happiness doe matter
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!
happiness wish desire
Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
happiness women lying
Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.
happiness fighting long
To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.
happiness brother growing-up
Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!
happiness together
Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.
happiness joy way
To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
happiness goal doe
Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
happiness mean home
Everyday happiness means you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot. George Burns
happiness poverty degradation
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation. George Bernard Shaw
happiness happiness-and-beauty products
Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
happiness happy health
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
happiness broken-heart heartbreak
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
happiness pursuit folly
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
happiness mistake men
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
happiness sacrifice quality
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
happiness happy greatness
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
happiness kind produce
Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain! Frederick William Faber
happiness christian son
Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master. Frederick William Robertson
happiness laughter believe
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. Franz Kafka
happiness men thrill
Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments. Erich Fromm
happiness men personality
Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.