Quotes about happiness
happiness success years
A combination of all that was best in the gladdest days of the departing year... Shelby Foote
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.
happiness thinking select
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
happiness care virtue
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
happiness sad broken-heart
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
happiness perfection mind
Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.
happiness peace philosophical
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
happiness happy motivation
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
happiness joy ifs
Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully. Thomas a Kempis
happiness time reflection
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
happiness spring mind
The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind. Samuel Johnson
happiness
For who is pleased with himself.
happiness government giving
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
happiness trying care
Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.
happiness yield joy
The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.
happiness men joy
Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.
happiness real hate
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.
happiness drinking insperational
That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.
happiness men thinking
No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
happiness believe mind
Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.
happiness life-is periods
Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.