Quotes about happiness
happiness wine simple
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. Nikos Kazantzakis
happiness happy
All in all we are very happy with the results.
happiness believe mean
To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness. Eric Hoffer
happiness men perfect
There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.
happiness being-happy simple
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
happiness time work
The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.
happiness happy laughter
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
happiness world complaining
Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion. James Anthony Froude
happiness world purpose
To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.
happiness mean thinking
One of Dr. Johnson's ingredients of happiness was, "A little less time than you want." That means always to have so many things you want to see, to have, and to do, that no day is quite long enough for all you think you would like to get done before you go to bed. Helen Hunt Jackson
happiness paradise thee
Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far. John Milton
happiness farewell joy
Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.
happiness wings air
She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.
happiness paradise shade
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?
happiness may pairs
Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.
happiness art son
Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.
happiness feels knows
And feel that I am happier than I know.
happiness curiosity secret
The secret of happiness is curiosity Norman Douglas
happiness giving body
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
happiness laughter humans
Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top. Norman Cousins
happiness laughter laughing
Laughter is inner jogging.
happiness disappointment world
Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate [in] many privations and disappointments. Norm MacDonald
happiness bars treasure
Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for. Mitch Albom
happiness optimistic love-is
Love is the only rational act.
happiness encouragement attitude
The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.
happiness laughter joy
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. Miguel de Cervantes
happiness singing-songs singing
He who sings frightens away his ills.
happiness nature travel
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. John Muir
happiness use thumbs
Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents. John W. Gardner
happiness pain men
Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy. John Tillotson
happiness pain anxiety
To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.
happiness spiritual giving
Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. . John Templeton
happiness meaningful inspiration
Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose. John Stossel