Quotes about happiness
happiness delight tricks
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. Charles Dickens
happiness kings ambition
If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition. Charles Caleb Colton
happiness wine emotional
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
happiness poverty bread
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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.
happiness mistake ambition
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
happiness light sun
Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.
happiness men views
Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of the thing; another may possess much of the thing, but very few of the material. In this particular view of it, happiness had been beautifully compared to the man in the desert--he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack.
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 mazes routes
Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.
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 morning would-be
Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?
happiness blessed home
When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!
happiness death future
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death. Alan Watts
happiness peace laughter
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another. Alan Alda
happiness laughter joy
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness. David Sarnoff
happiness strong emotional
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. Carl Sagan
happiness depends
Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else? Byron Katie
happiness smile music
I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile. Buddy Guy
happiness mean self
If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness. Caitlin Thomas
happiness reality expectations
So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality. Cathy Guisewite
happiness
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
happiness pet several subjects talk unless winston
Like most people, I have several pet subjects - that may or may not be interesting to other people. Don't get me started on happiness, or habits, or children's literature, or Winston Churchill, unless you really want to talk about it. Gretchen Rubin
happiness mother son
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged. Louisa May Alcott
happiness way secure
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day. Charles William Eliot
happiness thinking giving
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them. Charles Kuralt
happiness life-is enjoy
All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!' Bob Newhart
happiness smile moving-on
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
happiness inner-peace cheerful
A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down. Beverly Sills
happiness dog nature
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. Bernard Williams
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
happiness happy women
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton