Quotes about happiness
happiness life-happiness broads
I love the broad margin to my life. Henry David Thoreau
happiness morning evening
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.
happiness heart men
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
happiness self supreme
Supreme happiness consists in self-content.
happiness running years
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
happiness mistake people
We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make. Jillian Michaels
happiness numbers sacred
Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. Jeremy Bentham
happiness dry pretty-things
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
happiness numbers truth-is
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
happiness fun occupation
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Jerome K. Jerome
happiness fake-people humor
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
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 lying discipline
Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance. James A. Baldwin
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 feel-good feels
Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do? Jim Carrey
happiness powerful men
Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?
happiness believe thinking
I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American and in every community has a right to pursue happiness. Jeb Bush
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 talent sole
Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith. Jean-Paul Sartre
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