Quotes about happiness
happiness children average
Children smile 400 times a day on average ... adults 15 times. Children laugh 150 times a day ... adults 6 times per day. Children play between 4-6 hours a day ... adults only 20 minutes a day. What's happened? Robert Holden
happiness real flower
Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.
happiness war love-is
It is because the world is so full of suffering, that your happiness is a gift. It is because the world is so full of poverty, that your wealth is a gift. It is because the world is so unfriendly, that your smile is a gift. It is because the world is so full of war, that your peace of mind is a gift. It is because the world is in such despair, that your hope and optimism is a gift. It is because the world is so afraid, that your love is a gift.
happiness blessing
Whatever comes, let's be content withal; Among God's blessings there is not one small. Robert Herrick
happiness men pursuit
The pursuit of happiness...is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. Robert Henri
happiness sweet tired
I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more... Sylvia Plath
happiness nature air
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
happiness
Is anyone anywhere happy?
happiness taken thinking
If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away. Rumi
happiness death spiritual
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
happiness wine drink
Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.
happiness self-esteem feel-better
People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something. Stephen Covey
happiness sacrifice desire
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
happiness pursuit-of-happiness pursuit
It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness. Viktor E. Frankl
happiness dedication doe
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.
happiness peace freedom
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
happiness fate laughing
It is God's giving if we laugh or weep. Sophocles
happiness prayer dark
There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror. The brain behind that face never heard of razors, prayers, or the logic of the universe. You turn the mirror sideways and see your face reflected with a sinister left-hand twist, half mad and half sane. Stephen King
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.
happiness fear creativity
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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.
happiness past profound
States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past. Stefan Zweig
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 smile mom
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
happiness country character
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.