Quotes about happiness
happiness giving spirit
Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
happiness instruction
Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
happiness vexation affair
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.
happiness men alive
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
happiness giving friendly
An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.
happiness perfect way
Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.
happiness thinking equanimity
The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.
happiness lying sides
Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
happiness strive happy-person
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
happiness quality talent
He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
happiness teaching use
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
happiness peace kings
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
happiness uplifting smart
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
happiness complaining sometimes
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. Joe Walsh
happiness successful unhappy
Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness. John McEnroe
happiness acquisition environment
Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment. John James Ingalls
happiness character emotion
Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion. John Jay Chapman
happiness worry people
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
happiness men happy-man
Happy man, happy dole. John Heywood
happiness men shirts
The happy man's without a shirt.
happiness wise
Better to be happy than wise.
happiness food cooking
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. John Gunther
happiness people study subjective
That said, the people who study subjective well-being will tell you that most people are pretty happy.
happiness brother artist
Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers-show me yours-show me that it is possible-show me your achievement-and the knowledge will give me the courage for mine. Mallory (the young artist) to Roark in "The Fountainhead" Ayn Rand
happiness mean goal
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
happiness happy integrity
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
happiness being-happy time
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
happiness real escaping
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.
happiness power overcoming-addiction
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
happiness public-opinion indifferent
Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it. Bertrand Russell
happiness friendly may
Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.
happiness exercise joy
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.
happiness people doe
Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.