Quotes about happiness
happiness masterpiece glorious
Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. Michel de Montaigne
happiness giving enjoy-life
It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.
happiness shadow lap
There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.
happiness annoyance smallest
The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
happiness wisdom excess
Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
happiness meaningful goal
Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.
happiness lying opinion
In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
happiness success next
Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure. Michael Korda
happiness stealing tricks
Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick? Markus Zusak
happiness waiting stones
But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.
happiness humor joy
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. Mark Twain
happiness contrast pleasant
Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.
happiness men busy
To be busy is man's only happiness.
happiness impossible sanity
Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?
happiness sadness trying
Sadness is just a place on the map. Don't try to avoid it, resist it or escape through substances. Settle it, allow it, and it will go. Marianne Williamson
happiness giving-up attachment
Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.
happiness gratitude children
I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same. Gratitude is essential to happiness. Every time our children rush up to us and smile, we have something to be happy about; every time we get out of bed and can take a deep breath and go out for a walk, we have something to be happy about-that is the essence of a happy existence. Happiness is a muscle we must use, or it will wither away.
happiness prayer meditation
The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the lamp; it only matters that the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, every thought of forgiveness, every meditation, every act of love, we plug in. The more of us who plug in, to more the darkness of the world will be cast from our midst. Today, let's all increase love's wattage!
happiness gratitude simple
I have lived large parts of my life in wonderful circumstances that I utterly failed to appreciate. Reasons to be happy were everywhere, but somehow I didn't connect with them. It was as though I was eating but couldn't taste the food. Finally, I've learned to celebrate the good while it's happening. I feel gratitude and praise today for what are sometimes such simple pleasures. I have learned that happiness is not determined by circumstances. Happiness is not what happens when everything goes the way you think it should go; happiness is what happens when you decide to be happy.
happiness lost complainers
Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost. Mason Cooley
happiness giving together
The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.
happiness ordinary routine
The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.
happiness drug paradise
Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.
happiness hearted hard
Happiness is often hard-hearted.
happiness goal chimera
Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.
happiness talent policy
Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent.
happiness pleasure
Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.
happiness thinking miserable
You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.
happiness cheerful topics
The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.
happiness risk bait
Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.
happiness wisdom memories
Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.
happiness children believe
As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them.
happiness waiting reason
Do not wait for a reason to be happy.