Quotes about happiness
happiness satisfaction faults
I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish. Benjamin Franklin
happiness sickness sensible
We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.
happiness being-happy mean
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
happiness happy people
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
happiness witty money
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
happiness christmas honesty
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
happiness government guarantees
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
happiness time long
If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
happiness men should-have
On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it
happiness desire firsts
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
happiness dog order
In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.
happiness happy responsibility
At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people. Anton Chekhov
happiness thinking greed
The bourgeoisie loves so-called "positive" types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one's innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.
happiness dream lying
Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness.
happiness frustration work-out
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
happiness happy mean
Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.
happiness knowledge inner-peace
The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
happiness happy summer
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
happiness success perseverance
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. bell hooks
happiness success perseverance
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
happiness
Surfeits of happiness are fatal. Baltasar Gracian
happiness happy wish
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
happiness block home
In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives. Ariel Gore
happiness thinking depth
I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.
happiness artist talking
The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?
happiness this-life relinquishing
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour. Anthony Trollope
happiness wisdom mistake
Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future. Diane Duane
happiness war breathtaking
Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies. Diane Arbus
happiness they-said said
Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.
happiness laughter heart
Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine. Diane Ackerman
happiness art precious-stones
For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design. Delphine de Girardin
happiness pursuit-of-happiness pursuit
The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it? Demetri Martin
happiness choices happiness-is-a-choice
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make. Dean Koontz