Quotes about happiness
happiness people evil
Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
happiness thinking unhappy
One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.
happiness men joy
The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.
happiness joy torment
We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.
happiness unhappy great-happiness
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
happiness taste
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.
happiness pride complaining
If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.
happiness jealousy envy
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
happiness inspiring failure
If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.
happiness
We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.
happiness beautiful imperfect
Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.
happiness opposites littles
The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.
happiness men misery
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
happiness humor men
Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.
happiness men thinking
Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.
happiness power excess
There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.
happiness success men
Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth. Francis Quarles
happiness art adversity
In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.
happiness long enough
It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.
happiness believe earth
I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery. Horace Walpole
happiness men names
You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is skilled in wisely using the gifts of the gods, and in suffering hard poverty, and who fears disgrace as worse than death. [Lat., Non possidentem multa vocaveris Recte beatum; rectius occupat Nomen beati, qui Deorum Muneribus sapienter uti, Duramque callet pauperiem pati, Pejusque leto flagitium timet.] Horace
happiness way
Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.
happiness simple
How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.
happiness people mind
Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.
happiness attitude book
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. Harry S Truman
happiness happy doctrine
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant
happiness book ifs
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy J. K. Rowling
happiness inspiring philosophical
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
happiness men honest
There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness. H. L. Mencken
happiness writing men
To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
happiness marriage men
Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
happiness want want-to-be-happy
Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy? H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
happiness happy mean
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.