Quotes about happiness
happiness art thinking
It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression. Agnes Martin
happiness people community
The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality. There is a vague impression that the world would be a good world if it were only happy, that it would be happy if it were amused, and that it would be amused if plenty of artificial recreation - that recreation for which we are now told every community stands responsible - were provided for its entertainment. Agnes Repplier
happiness joy grace
The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
happiness happy women
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
happiness world potatoes
No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Charlotte Bronte
happiness taste life-and-happiness
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
happiness feelings comfort
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
happiness pain laughter
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. Charlie Chaplin
happiness joy
Joy is not a thing, it is in us. Charles Wagner
happiness smile laughter
I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. Charles de Lint
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 wine emotional
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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 light sun
Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.
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 believe needs
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
happiness humble pride
It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs. Charles Baudelaire
happiness sacrifice humanity
The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
happiness beauty way
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.