Quotes about happiness
happiness time-management hours
To fill the hour──that is happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
happiness eggs way
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things. Ralph Waldo Emerson
happiness joy approval
To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval. Ralph Waldo Emerson
happiness success work
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply. Ralph Waldo Emerson
happiness strong eye
Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank you! Ralph Waldo Emerson
happiness beauty rejection
Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody. Ralph Waldo Emerson
happiness men progress
Man's life is a progress, not a station. Ralph Waldo Emerson
happiness next-day have-a-great-day
One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day. Sean Hannity
happiness success years
A combination of all that was best in the gladdest days of the departing year... Shelby Foote
happiness secret monotony
The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony. Sean O'Casey
happiness lying dark
Happiness, I think, lies on the surface... when one plunges under the surface all the buoyant things disappear, and the farther down one gets the more cold and dark it seems: and the more oppressive space feels. Lewis Mumford
happiness happy pain
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? Leslie Caron
happiness smile laughter
Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world. Lawrence G. Lovasik
happiness laughter men
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. Lawrence Durrell
happiness spiritual journey
In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved. Laura Schlessinger
happiness mean order
Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does. Laura Schlessinger
happiness laughter people
I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter. Larry David
happiness laughter animal
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing. Marcus Aurelius
happiness character carpe-diem
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence. Marcus Aurelius
happiness care virtue
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius
happiness peace philosophical
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. Marcus Aurelius
happiness men world
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. Joseph Butler
happiness true-love mean
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. Kate Millett
happiness sweet wine
Wine is only sweet to happy men. John Keats
happiness beauty nature
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. John Keats
happiness laughter men
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy. John D. Rockefeller
happiness love-is people
People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves. Leo Tolstoy
happiness soul growth
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life. Leo Tolstoy
happiness inspiring success
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. Pearl Bailey
happiness oasis desert
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. Rachel Field
happiness smile beauty
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. Rabindranath Tagore
happiness hate cat
Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend. Keith Douglas
happiness heart brain
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. Leo Rosten