Quotes about happiness
happiness art sick
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick. Sophie Swetchine
happiness pleasure died
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure. Sol Hurok
happiness money men
Like the man said, can happiness buy money? Stanley Kubrick
happiness patience time
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. Soren Kierkegaard
happiness success
I must find a truth that is true for me. Soren Kierkegaard
happiness fear creativity
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. Soren Kierkegaard
happiness believe soon-enough
please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you. Stephen Chbosky
happiness bad-day laughing
There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. Stephen Chbosky
happiness success money
I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better. Sophie Tucker
happiness laughter joy
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. Thomas Hobbes
happiness jobs laughter
I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face. Thomas Kretschmann
happiness employment affair
Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs. Thomas Jefferson
happiness happy appreciate
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have. Woody Allen
happiness dream strong
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. William Wordsworth
happiness real warrior
Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavors are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright: Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; And in himself posses his own desire William Wordsworth
happiness beautiful age
A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free. William Wordsworth
happiness issues heaven
But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover. William Wordsworth
happiness luxury disrespect
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. William Wordsworth
happiness earth pleasure
Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. William Wordsworth
happiness gratitude cheer
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. William Saroyan
happiness believe journey
You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey. William J. Clinton
happiness rich-or-poor class
That everybody can do something, without regard to how old or young they are, rich or poor or middle class they are, how busy or not busy they are and what level skills they have. Everyone can do something. And everybody should do something. ... And if you do it, you'll be happier. William J. Clinton
happiness hate stress
Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think. William J. Clinton
happiness dream spiritual
The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. All weaknesses can be overcome, bodily healing, financial independence, spiritual awakening, and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams. This is the superstructure of happiness. William James
happiness attitude mean
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance. William James
happiness sadness reality
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction. William James
happiness politics way
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. William James
happiness laughter men
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. William James
happiness natural contradiction
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it. William James
happiness laughter laughing
We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh. William James
happiness today tomorrow
The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow. William James
happiness movement habit
Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue. William James
happiness music philosophical
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. William James