Quotes about happiness
happiness love-you what-matters
You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most. Fyodor Dostoevsky
happiness laughter joy
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
happiness truth laughter
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. Friedrich Nietzsche
happiness loneliness sadness
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.
happiness children real
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
happiness
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
happiness expression law
No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy. John Ruskin
happiness paradise thee
Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far. John Milton
happiness farewell joy
Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.
happiness wings air
She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.
happiness paradise shade
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?
happiness may pairs
Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.
happiness art son
Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.
happiness feels knows
And feel that I am happier than I know.
happiness curiosity secret
The secret of happiness is curiosity Norman Douglas
happiness giving body
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
happiness laughter humans
Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top. Norman Cousins
happiness laughter laughing
Laughter is inner jogging.
happiness disappointment world
Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate [in] many privations and disappointments. Norm MacDonald
happiness bars treasure
Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for. Mitch Albom
happiness optimistic love-is
Love is the only rational act.
happiness encouragement attitude
The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.
happiness laughter joy
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. Miguel de Cervantes
happiness singing-songs singing
He who sings frightens away his ills.
happiness happy pain
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. Thomas Jefferson
happiness peace laughter
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
happiness government safety
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
happiness government political
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
happiness real confusion
Nothing real stands between you and your happiness, only illusion and confusion. Robert Holden
happiness happy-with-yourself
Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy.
happiness keys key-to-happiness
You are the key to happiness.
happiness world
Your happiness is your gift to the world.
happiness sacred
Happiness is all about milking the "sacred now".