Quotes about happiness
happiness curiosity progress
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress. Samuel Johnson
happiness would-be abstinence
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
happiness art exercise
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise...Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.
happiness want
We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.
happiness men good-man
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
happiness book two
I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive. Rumer Godden
happiness writing reality
I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me. Rodney Dangerfield
happiness happy worry
If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. Robertson Davies
happiness happy believe
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. Robert Staughton Lynd
happiness writing language-words
It is with words as with sunbeams-the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Robert Southey
happiness self break-out
Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made? Robert Penn Warren
happiness thinking facts
If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.
happiness contagious carrier
Happiness is contagious. Be a carrier!!
happiness long return
Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness. Sarah Orne Jewett
happiness fate feet
Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed. Virgil
happiness lucky world
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days... Willa Cather
happiness spiritual purpose
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
happiness children joy
One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child. Wayne Dyer
happiness simple want
You can never get enough of what you don't want.
happiness mistake thinking
Most people are searching for happiness. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves. That's a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.
happiness spiritual attitude
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.
happiness dance spiritual
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
happiness ideas would-be
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. Walter Benjamin
happiness being-happy fear
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
happiness men world
To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes. Virginia Woolf
happiness littles strings
Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.
happiness past thinking
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
happiness taxi-cabs sea
She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.
happiness mind way
My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.
happiness beauty laughter
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
happiness girl boys
Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green. William Blake
happiness sweet baby
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
happiness nature flower
To create a little flower is the labour of ages.