Quotes about happiness
happiness evil doe
All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle. Samuel Johnson
happiness failing should
Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.
happiness life-is enough
Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings; let us be therefore cautious of how we strip her.
happiness mind stronger
What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.
happiness home wealth
He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.
happiness real men
Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.
happiness real remembrance
Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.
happiness kindness endure
If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.
happiness evil neglect
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; -from fear of its being abused.
happiness
It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.
happiness inner-peace trying
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
happiness believe long
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
happiness art men
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
happiness beer men
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
happiness uplifting hope
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
happiness equality animal
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
happiness success men
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
happiness drinking wine
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
happiness complaints wretched
To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.
happiness grief desire
The disturbers of happiness are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.
happiness curiosity progress
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.
happiness would-be abstinence
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
happiness art exercise
To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise...Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.
happiness want
We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.
happiness men good-man
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
happiness book two
I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive. Rumer Godden
happiness writing reality
I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me. Rodney Dangerfield
happiness happy worry
If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. Robertson Davies
happiness happy believe
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. Robert Staughton Lynd
happiness writing language-words
It is with words as with sunbeams-the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Robert Southey
happiness self break-out
Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made? Robert Penn Warren
happiness thinking facts
If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.
happiness contagious carrier
Happiness is contagious. Be a carrier!!