Happiness Quotes
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If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.
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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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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 isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
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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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Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,' said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam's gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driven away by some loved voice or hand. Sam felt that he could sit like that in endless happiness.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.
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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 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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Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.
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I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
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Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving.
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I'm a little weird that way. I don't really know how to express my happiness.
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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.
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The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
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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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Rigging is like Zen meditation. You must bend over the boat until your back is breaking, until your brain is filled with numbers and fractions of numbers, until you can accurately measure an oarlock's pitch without bothering to use the pitch meter. Only then will you see the way of eternal rigging happiness.
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Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
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Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
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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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Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living.
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
