Quotes about happiness
happiness ignorance men
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. Graham Greene
happiness pain identity
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.
happiness believe people
I've come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It's honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to thing about it. Goldie Hawn
happiness happy attitude
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
happiness smile inspiration
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
happiness trust intuition
The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become. Gisele Bundchen
happiness being-happy player
I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton. Ian Anderson
happiness curious life-happiness
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life. Hugh Walpole
happiness
I'd rather be happy than right. Hugh Prather
happiness home simple
When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.
happiness attitude conditions
Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
happiness happy real
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. Hosea Ballou
happiness men way
To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way. Horace
happiness flower heart
Sometimes our thoughts turn back toward a corner in a forest, or the end of a bank, or an orchard powdered with flowers, seen but a single time on some happy day, yet remaining in our hearts and leaving in soul and body an unappeased desire which is not to be forgotten, a feeling that we have just rubbed elbows with happiness. Guy de Maupassant
happiness perfect purpose
The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness. Gottfried Leibniz
happiness together being-together
I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest. Gillian Flynn
happiness feelings resistance
Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome. Friedrich Nietzsche
happiness goal lines
My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
happiness doe matter
The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!
happiness wish desire
Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
happiness women lying
Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.
happiness fighting long
To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.
happiness brother growing-up
Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!
happiness together
Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.
happiness joy way
To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
happiness goal doe
Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
happiness mean home
Everyday happiness means you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot. George Burns
happiness poverty degradation
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation. George Bernard Shaw
happiness happiness-and-beauty products
Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
happiness happy health
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
happiness broken-heart heartbreak
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
happiness pursuit folly
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
happiness mistake men
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.