Quotes about happiness
happiness men world
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world. Joseph Butler
happiness motivation satisfaction
The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.
happiness true-love mean
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. Kate Millett
happiness laughter humor
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. Langston Hughes
happiness sweet wine
Wine is only sweet to happy men. John Keats
happiness beautiful morning
Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel -or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.
happiness tree branches
In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.
happiness beauty nature
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
happiness laughter men
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy. John D. Rockefeller
happiness encouragement health
Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.
happiness pain fall
You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain. Lois McMaster Bujold
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.
happiness make-others-happy
Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself. Lorenzo Snow
happiness water mixtures
Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days! Lord Byron
happiness boys years
Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?
happiness meaningful angel
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
happiness weed numbers
It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises. M. F. K. Fisher
happiness guilt inward
Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt. Lord Chesterfield
happiness grief men
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.
happiness laughter joy
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
happiness attitude latin
I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.
happiness want
When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. Malcolm Forbes
happiness art laughter
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
happiness hug destructive
A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive.
happiness ifs knows
How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.
happiness purpose expansion
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
happiness flower way
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!
happiness opportunity simple
Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established. Mahatma Gandhi
happiness lying fall
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
happiness passion men
We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.