Quotes about happiness
happiness memories two
Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did. Andy Warhol
happiness thinking boss
When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.
happiness found
As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.
happiness struggle winning
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. Andre Gide
happiness past order
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
happiness joy storm
What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar? Alphonse de Lamartine
happiness you-make-me-happy comforting
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others. Aesop
happiness attitude discontent
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
happiness being-happy appreciation
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. A. A. Milne
happiness happy thinking
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
happiness integrity thinking
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
happiness irony sometimes
It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything. Alexander McCall Smith
happiness laughter truth
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. Alexander Pope
happiness sunshine obscurity
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
happiness math order
Order is heaven's first law.
happiness laughter men
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
happiness loss ordinary
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
happiness kings bliss
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
happiness style hackney
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
happiness gratitude experience
Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience. Albert Schweitzer
happiness success happy
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
happiness men numbers
Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.
happiness happy littles
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. E. L. Konigsburg
happiness beauty beautiful
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness. Drew Barrymore
happiness being-happy thinking
I think happiness is what makes you pretty.
happiness being-happy stars
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. Doug Larson
happiness loyalty past
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
happiness joy remembrance
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
happiness dream should
Happiness should always remain a bit incomplete. After all, dreams are boundless. Anatoly Karpov
happiness miserable neighbor
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable. Anatole France
happiness ignorance inner-peace
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
happiness fall rain
What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again. Anais Nin
happiness knowledge fever
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.