Quotes about happiness
happiness children journey
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child. Sam Ewing
happiness keys giving
The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best Russell Simmons
happiness natural states
You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state.
happiness happy inner-peace
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. Sam Levenson
happiness expectations people
Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier. Simone Elkeles
happiness luck needs
If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck. Simone de Beauvoir
happiness fighting thinking
I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose. Simone Weil
happiness real evil
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
happiness exotic birth
Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
happiness men inner-peace
Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow. Swami Vivekananda
happiness want what-you-want
Go after what you want, but enjoy the trip. Robert Anthony
happiness friends joy
Do not allow your thoughts to become greater than you. No matter what your thoughts tell you, don't listen. Remember your thoughts are not your friend. Your thoughts try to confound you, confuse you. And they will tell you all kinds of things. Do not listen to your thoughts, even your good thoughts. Transcend everything, go beyond your thoughts to your bliss, to your joy and to your happiness. Robert Adams
happiness fun optimism
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. Robert A. Heinlein
happiness children lying
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pu
happiness smile wedding
They gave each other a smile with a future in it. Ring Lardner
happiness attitude desire
We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions. Thomas Troward
happiness misery-and-pain doe
More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery. Thomas Traherne
happiness believe miserable
Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
happiness thinking imagination
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
happiness patience attitude
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. Thomas Szasz
happiness secret monotony
The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony. Sean O'Casey
happiness lying dark
Happiness, I think, lies on the surface... when one plunges under the surface all the buoyant things disappear, and the farther down one gets the more cold and dark it seems: and the more oppressive space feels. Lewis Mumford
happiness happy pain
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? Leslie Caron
happiness smile laughter
Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world. Lawrence G. Lovasik
happiness laughter men
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. Lawrence Durrell
happiness spiritual journey
In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved. Laura Schlessinger
happiness mean order
Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.
happiness laughter people
I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter. Larry David
happiness laughter animal
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing. Marcus Aurelius
happiness character carpe-diem
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
happiness men
A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.
happiness lying practice
I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.
happiness laughter philosophical
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.