Happiness Quotes
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The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
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I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.
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Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.
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Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
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No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.
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The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.
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In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.
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One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.
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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people - first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
