Quotes about happiness
happiness money business
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. Charles Dickens
happiness law-of-attraction chains
We forge the chains we wear in life.
happiness delight tricks
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
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 believe needs
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
happiness humble pride
It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs. Charles Baudelaire
happiness sacrifice humanity
The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
happiness beauty way
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
happiness tragedy silver
Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life. Chandra Wilson
happiness
Happiness is not something that you pursue; it is something that you allow. Happiness is just being.
happiness pursuit aim
My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit. Charles Saatchi
happiness kindness happy-life
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead. Charles M. Schwab
happiness thumbs puppy
Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy. Charles M. Schulz
happiness wedding
Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.