Quotes about happiness
happiness simplicity benefits
No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace. Han Fei
happiness selfish stupid
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert
happiness men two
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. Gilbert K. Chesterton
happiness real pleasure-seeking
The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.
happiness blood joy
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good. John Dryden
happiness men today
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.
happiness long
They live too long who happiness outlive.
happiness happy running
Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
happiness disappointment heart
No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.
happiness wise
The days that make us happy make us wise John Masefield
happiness contribution
To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others. John Lubbock
happiness people world
The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.
happiness life-happiness objectives
Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
happiness imperfect pleasure
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
happiness people would-be
It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.
happiness life-and-love violin
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
happiness liberty foundation
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of. John Locke
happiness two mind
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
happiness gun arms
When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun. John Lennon
happiness sadness play
Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face. Jim Rohn
happiness emotion masters
Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.
happiness frustration frustrated
Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.
happiness art joy
Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.
happiness important needs
Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.
happiness happy
There's a lot to be happy about right now.
happiness huge older
I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. Paula Cole
happiness success
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
happiness law-of-attraction chains
We forge the chains we wear in life. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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 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 mean would-be
By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature. Edith Sitwell