Happiness Quotes

• Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Happiness
  • Illusion
  • Average

• I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Death

• 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.

  

  Aristotle
  • Lives
  • Occupation
  • Ideal

• The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

  

  Ernest Dimnet
  • Errors
  • Repetition
  • Catastrophes

• Things that influence me are my kids, their happiness, colorfulness, and vitality. My husband - he comes up with some great quotes and ideas. God - He is the Ultimate artist. And what I see around me - flowers, leaves, trees, birds, fruit, vegetables.

  

  Mary Engelbreit
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Peace
  • Inner Peace

• 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.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Happiness
  • Fellows

• 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.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Horse

• Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • People
  • Happiness
  • Useful

• I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • You
  • Happiness
  • Moment

• Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Children
  • Happiness

• Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Blame
  • Unhappiness

• I wanted Jesus in 'A.D.' to be very, very, very human - to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it's almost complete, right? It's all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples.

  

  Juan Pablo Di Pace
  • Jesus
  • Happiness
  • Risen

• The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mistake

• Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Why
  • Experience

• I'm a little weird that way. I don't really know how to express my happiness.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Know
  • Happiness
  • Weird

• Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving.

  

  Confucius
  • Happiness
  • Arrive
  • Guest

• What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Happiness
  • Duties
  • Aims

• 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.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Summer
  • Learned
  • Vocation

• Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Children
  • Laughter
  • Used

• 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.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mind
  • Suffering
  • Meditation

• 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.

  

  Brad Alan Lewis
  • Meditation
  • Boat
  • Measure

• The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

  

  William Morris
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • inspirational

• Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Heart
  • Happiness
  • Being

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