Quotes about happiness
happiness men
A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man. Marcus Aurelius
happiness lying practice
I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.
happiness laughter philosophical
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
happiness thinking select
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
happiness care virtue
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
happiness sad broken-heart
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
happiness perfection mind
Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.
happiness peace philosophical
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
happiness joy ifs
Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully. Thomas a Kempis
happiness time reflection
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
happiness inspiring success
Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. Thomas A. Edison
happiness joy embrace
Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything. Ralph Waldo Emerson
happiness letting-go unnecessary
True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary. Sharon Salzberg
happiness happy lying
We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.
happiness dark light
It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.
happiness friends laughter
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. Judith Viorst
happiness pain joy
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself the face of pain. Joseph Conrad
happiness flavor please
Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
happiness ignorance men
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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 motivation satisfaction
The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.
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 laughter humor
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. Langston Hughes
happiness sweet wine
Wine is only sweet to happy men. John Keats
happiness beautiful morning
Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel -or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.
happiness tree branches
In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.
happiness beauty nature
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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.
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