Quotes about happiness
happiness thinking things-in-life
Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them. Peter Cook
happiness inspiring success
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. Pearl Bailey
happiness smile laughter
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. Phyllis Diller
happiness oasis desert
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. Rachel Field
happiness smile beauty
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. Rabindranath Tagore
happiness marriage thinking
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. Queen Victoria
happiness whim
Read at whim! Read at whim! Randall Jarrell
happiness time-management hours
To fill the hour──that is happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
happiness eggs way
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
happiness joy approval
To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
happiness success work
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
happiness strong eye
Say thank you! I want to hear you say it now. Out loud. 'Thank you.' You're saying thank you because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds. You're saying thank you because you know there's no problem created that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank you!
happiness beauty rejection
Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.
happiness men progress
Man's life is a progress, not a station.
happiness next-day have-a-great-day
One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day. Sean Hannity
happiness success years
A combination of all that was best in the gladdest days of the departing year... Shelby Foote
happiness secret monotony
The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony. Sean O'Casey
happiness lying dark
Happiness, I think, lies on the surface... when one plunges under the surface all the buoyant things disappear, and the farther down one gets the more cold and dark it seems: and the more oppressive space feels. Lewis Mumford
happiness happy pain
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? Leslie Caron
happiness smile laughter
Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world. Lawrence G. Lovasik
happiness laughter men
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. Lawrence Durrell
happiness spiritual journey
In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved. Laura Schlessinger
happiness mean order
Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.
happiness laughter people
I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter. Larry David
happiness pursuit-of-happiness pursuit
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness. Viktor E. Frankl
happiness dedication doe
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.
happiness peace freedom
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
happiness fate laughing
It is God's giving if we laugh or weep. Sophocles
happiness prayer dark
There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind that face never heard of razors, prayers, or the logic of the universe. You turn the mirror sideways and see your face reflected with a sinister left-hand twist, half mad and half sane. Stephen King
happiness art sick
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick. Sophie Swetchine
happiness pleasure died
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure. Sol Hurok
happiness money men
Like the man said, can happiness buy money? Stanley Kubrick
happiness patience time
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. Soren Kierkegaard