Quotes about happiness
happiness thinking community-living
I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America. Youssou N'Dour
happiness government political
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection. William H. Seward
happiness joy desire
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy. William Hazlitt
happiness teacher attitude
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
happiness beauty laughter
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
happiness enlightenment stronger
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way. Wendell Willkie
happiness inspiring success
He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you. Wendelin Van Draanen
happiness real play
The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living. Walter Rauschenbusch
happiness law mars
The influences that really make and mar human happiness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and goodwill into their relations.
happiness spiritual purpose
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. Willa Cather
happiness children joy
One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child. Wayne Dyer
happiness simple want
You can never get enough of what you don't want.
happiness mistake thinking
Most people are searching for happiness. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves. That's a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.
happiness spiritual attitude
The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.
happiness dance spiritual
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
happiness ideas would-be
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. Walter Benjamin
happiness being-happy fear
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
happiness men world
To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes. Virginia Woolf
happiness littles strings
Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.
happiness past thinking
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
happiness taxi-cabs sea
She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.
happiness mind way
My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.
happiness beauty laughter
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
happiness girl boys
Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green. William Blake
happiness sweet baby
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
happiness nature flower
To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
happiness beauty gratitude
Exuberance is beauty.
happiness cutting forgiving
The cut worm forgives the plow.
happiness stars light
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
happiness thank-you thanksgiving
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
happiness self color
The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary. Wendy Wasserstein
happiness want matter
If God told you exactly what it was you were to do, you would be happy doing it no matter what it was. What you're doing is what God wants you to do. Be happy. Werner Erhard
happiness children men
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. Samuel Richardson