Quotes about happiness
happiness believe long
While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Sarah Vowell
happiness success believe
I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me... Sarah McLachlan
happiness clouds long
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
happiness doe ends
Love does not end when we don't see each other. Sarah Miles
happiness beauty joy
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty? Sara Teasdale
happiness spiritual preventing
It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness. Sandra Bernhard
happiness foundation virtue
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
happiness smile heartfelt
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.
happiness equality egalitarianism
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. Samuel Johnson
happiness men wife
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
happiness next hours
We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.
happiness flower flames
Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.
happiness hours pleasure
So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future.
happiness idle
Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach.
happiness anticipation
None are happy but by anticipation of change.
happiness success safety
Good sense alone is a sedate and quiescent quality, which manages its possessions well, but does not increase them; it collects few materials for its own operations, and preserves safety, but never gains supremacy.
happiness long return
Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness. Sarah Orne Jewett
happiness fate feet
Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed. Virgil
happiness lucky world
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days... Willa Cather
happiness light glowing
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence. Washington Irving
happiness achievement should
All achievement should be measured in human happiness. Walter Lippmann
happiness men advice
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. Voltaire
happiness lonely solitude
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
happiness cheer-up decisions-you-make
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
happiness civilization inner-peace
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. William Feather
happiness bored people
The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. William Ralph Inge
happiness success happy
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
happiness believe years
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is William Butler Yeats
happiness sweet poetry
I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more....
happiness laughter joy
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
happiness sex soul
My soul had found All happiness in its own cause or ground. Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot Those amorous cries that out of quiet come And must the common round of day resume.
happiness men age
Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which....
happiness taken men
A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him. Wilhelm von Humboldt