Quotes about happiness
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. Samuel Johnson
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!!
happiness kings famous-inspirational
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson
happiness morning eye
It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.
happiness world domination
Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
happiness done good-work
I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.
happiness people mystery
It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
happiness men focus
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
happiness forget oneself
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
happiness knows
We can only know others by ourselves.
happiness being-happy humor
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
happiness delight toil
When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
happiness perspective entrepreneur
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
happiness want ends
To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
happiness yoga benefits
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
happiness hope gratitude
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
happiness simple mind
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.