Quotes about happiness
happiness country home
If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country. James Buchanan
happiness success perseverance
It's time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you. Iyanla Vanzant
happiness men literature
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. Isaac Disraeli
happiness goal rational
Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings Immanuel Kant
happiness thoughtful mind
When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.
happiness way worthy
Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.
happiness categorical-imperative should
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
happiness happy laughter
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
happiness honesty integrity
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
happiness smile laughter
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
happiness lying greatness
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
happiness happy heart
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
happiness believe make-others-happy
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
happiness pain appearance
We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.
happiness people evil
Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
happiness thinking unhappy
One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.
happiness men joy
The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.
happiness joy torment
We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.
happiness unhappy great-happiness
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
happiness taste
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.
happiness pride complaining
If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.
happiness jealousy envy
The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
happiness inspiring failure
If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.
happiness
We would rather see those to whom we do good, than those who do good to us.
happiness beautiful imperfect
Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.
happiness opposites littles
The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.
happiness men misery
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
happiness dad father
Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed. Jennifer Grant
happiness happy joy
To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness. Georges Bernanos
happiness poison fruit
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison. Georges Bataille
happiness dream simple
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain. George Sand
happiness lying consciousness
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
happiness joy age
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. Jean Paul