Quotes about happiness
happiness joy road-to-happiness
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent. Pindar
happiness made seems
Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.] Pierre Corneille
happiness happy laughter
Happiness seems made to be shared.
happiness success order
I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now. Peter McWilliams
happiness depression feelings
The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy. Pete Wentz
happiness miracle world
Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle. Paulo Coelho
happiness song eye
Join with those who sing songs, tell stories, enjoy life ... because happiness is contagious. Join those who walk with their heads high even when they have tears in their eyes. Avoid those who ... have never shed a tear
happiness success people
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people. Peter Marshall
happiness reading down-and
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.' Peter Lynch
happiness effort enormous
No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else. Quentin Crisp
happiness pain people
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy. Polly Toynbee
happiness water challenges
Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.
happiness gdp government
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
happiness real mean
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.
happiness years giving
Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.
happiness moments
The happier the moment the shorter. Pliny the Elder
happiness true-happiness deserving
True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
happiness lying men
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things. Plutarch
happiness habit easy
Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.
happiness happy speak-less
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
happiness happy flower
Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Phillips Brooks
happiness heart men
There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness. Nathaniel Parker Willis
happiness destiny people
The tragedy of too many people is that they cannot allow happiness just to be there; they cannot leave it alone. Their sense of who they are and of what their destiny is cannot accommodate happiness. So they are drive to find ways to sabotage it. Nathaniel Branden
happiness struggle self
Some people have a view of self and of the universe that obliges them to struggle for happiness, to yearn for happiness-"some time in the future"-perhaps next year or the year after that. But not now. Not at this moment. Not here. Here and now is too terrifyingly close, too terrifyingly immediate. They suffer from happiness anxiety.
happiness loss romantic-love
Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender -not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
happiness smile laughter
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon. Nathaniel Hawthorne
happiness wish looks
Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those precincts, and in that station where Providence itself has cast their lot. Happy they who read the riddle without a weary world-search, or a lifetime spent in vain!
happiness guests may
Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face?
happiness sorrow substance
There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of eternity, so that spirits still embodied may well tremble at it.
happiness lying reality
That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm.
happiness men joy
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
happiness heart sunshine
A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness. Mother Teresa
happiness happy laughter
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.