Quotes about happiness
happiness true-happiness deserving
True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it. Pliny the Elder
happiness lying men
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things. Plutarch
happiness habit easy
Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.
happiness happy speak-less
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
happiness happy flower
Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Phillips Brooks
happiness heart men
There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness. Nathaniel Parker Willis
happiness destiny people
The tragedy of too many people is that they cannot allow happiness just to be there; they cannot leave it alone. Their sense of who they are and of what their destiny is cannot accommodate happiness. So they are drive to find ways to sabotage it. Nathaniel Branden
happiness struggle self
Some people have a view of self and of the universe that obliges them to struggle for happiness, to yearn for happiness-"some time in the future"-perhaps next year or the year after that. But not now. Not at this moment. Not here. Here and now is too terrifyingly close, too terrifyingly immediate. They suffer from happiness anxiety.
happiness loss romantic-love
Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender -not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
happiness smile laughter
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon. Nathaniel Hawthorne
happiness wish looks
Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those precincts, and in that station where Providence itself has cast their lot. Happy they who read the riddle without a weary world-search, or a lifetime spent in vain!
happiness guests may
Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face?
happiness sorrow substance
There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow--the latter being earthly and finite, the former composed of the substance and texture of eternity, so that spirits still embodied may well tremble at it.
happiness lying reality
That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm.
happiness men joy
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
happiness heart sunshine
A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness. Mother Teresa
happiness happy laughter
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
happiness sadness play
Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face. Jim Rohn
happiness emotion masters
Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.
happiness frustration frustrated
Learn how to turn frustration into fascination. You will learn more being fascinated by life than you will by being frustrated by it.
happiness art joy
Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.
happiness important needs
Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.
happiness mean climbing
We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for. George Leigh Mallory
happiness angelic
Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service. Emanuel Swedenborg
happiness book believe
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books. Ellen Hopkins
happiness fighting effort
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it. Elizabeth Gilbert
happiness space suffering
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
happiness powerful embrace
Embrace the glorious mess that you are
happiness thinking states
Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it. John Burroughs
happiness inner-peace secret
The secret of happiness is something to do.
happiness choices doe
Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make. Joel Osteen
happiness sex romantic-love
The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test. Joan Chen
happiness accepting feels
I feel that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works. Louise Hay