Quotes about happiness
happiness believe destiny
I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease. Madame de Stael
happiness feelings action
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
happiness sweet nature
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
happiness stories said
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. Haruki Murakami
happiness simplicity benefits
No benefit is more constant than simplicity; no happiness more constant than peace. Han Fei
happiness selfish stupid
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert
happiness men two
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. Gilbert K. Chesterton
happiness real pleasure-seeking
The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.
happiness blood joy
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good. John Dryden
happiness men today
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.
happiness long
They live too long who happiness outlive.
happiness happy running
Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
happiness disappointment heart
No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.
happiness wise
The days that make us happy make us wise John Masefield
happiness contribution
To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others. John Lubbock
happiness people world
The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.
happiness life-happiness objectives
Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.
happiness imperfect pleasure
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
happiness people would-be
It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.
happiness life-and-love violin
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
happiness liberty foundation
The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of. John Locke
happiness two mind
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
happiness gun arms
When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun. John Lennon
happiness smile girl
Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke. John Krasinski
happiness art truth
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error; and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions. Johann Kaspar Lavater
happiness joy lasts
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
happiness eulogy done
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
happiness laughter men
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
happiness running laughter
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
happiness spring moderation
Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
happiness two people
When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
happiness men highest
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
happiness cheerful social
The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.