Quotes about happiness
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. Elizabeth Gilbert
happiness powerful embrace
Embrace the glorious mess that you are Elizabeth Gilbert
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. John Burroughs
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 acquisition environment
Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment. John James Ingalls
happiness character emotion
Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion. John Jay Chapman
happiness worry people
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. John Jay Chapman
happiness men happy-man
Happy man, happy dole. John Heywood
happiness men shirts
The happy man's without a shirt. John Heywood
happiness wise
Better to be happy than wise. John Heywood
happiness food cooking
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. John Gunther
happiness joy enjoyment
Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so. John Donne
happiness inspiring recovery
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. John Milton
happiness work opportunity
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey
happiness laughter unique
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. John Dewey
happiness money funny-life
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. Joan Rivers
happiness morning laughter
It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after. George Ade
happiness theatre world
The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
happiness men shallow
The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom. Garrison Keillor
happiness sex secret
I remember when I switched from Christmas to sex as the secret of happiness ... Garrison Keillor
happiness christmas thank-you
A book is a gift you can open again and again. Garrison Keillor
happiness love-you faces
Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do. James Taylor
happiness success laughter
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. James Thurber
happiness ignorance loss
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. James Smithson
happiness safety political
The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed. James Madison
happiness successful unhappy
Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness. John McEnroe
happiness night thinking
The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity. Lucian
happiness perfect maintenance
There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance. Louis Auchincloss
happiness lying america
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. Louis D. Brandeis
happiness courage mean
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. Louis D. Brandeis