Happiness Quotes
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Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
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.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness.
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I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
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The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
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In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.
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Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
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There are many ways to prescribe happiness but there is one way that is available to everybody, it's not very expensive ... it's very democratic, and everyone has acesss to it. It is: Find someone who needs help and help him for no ulterior motive.
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There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
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If you pursue happiness you never find it.
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I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
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It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.
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Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.
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Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.
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Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
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Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
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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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The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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Happiness is very simple and minimal.
