Quotes about happiness
happiness attitude laughter
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. Jean Paul
happiness beautiful twilight
The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of the heart's existence is in this calm equable light, even although it be only moonshine or twilight. Now the mind alone can obtain for us this heavenly cheerfulness and peace.
happiness laughter joy
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
happiness fake-people humor
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise. Jerome K. Jerome
happiness regret opportunity
Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.
happiness laughter mad
I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style. Jesse McCartney
happiness make-you-happy
You've gotta do things that make you happy. Jennifer Lopez
happiness pain giving
To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness. Jean Giraudoux
happiness broken-heart heartbreak
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.
happiness song heart
I opened the doors of my heart. And behold, There was music within and a song, And echoes did feed on the sweetness, repeating it long. I opened the doors of my heart. And behold, There was music that played itself out in aeolian notes: Then was heard, as a far-away bell at long intervals tolled. Jean Ingelow
happiness happy-life self
Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life. James Cagney
happiness religious moral
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? Christopher Hampton
happiness lasts illusion
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness. Gaston Bachelard
happiness children games
There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!
happiness perfect want
Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you. Fulton J. Sheen
happiness people facts
People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact. Germaine Greer
happiness beauty art
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Francis Bacon
happiness wisdom humility
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
happiness new-beginnings loss
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
happiness government people
... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all. Frances Wright
happiness practice moral
The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter. George Washington
happiness government law
Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.
happiness joy littles
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn. George Santayana
happiness wise wisdom
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
happiness happy determination
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
happiness laughter mad
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
happiness success education
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
happiness nature grateful
A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
happiness believe passion
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
happiness succeed standards
The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed.
happiness work character
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
happiness play piano
But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them. George Orwell
happiness acceptance literature
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.