Happiness Quotes
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.
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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
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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.
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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.
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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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Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.
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What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
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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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Happiness needs one-upmanship.
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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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The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?
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The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.
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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.
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The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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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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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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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.
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The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
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You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
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I realize I’m a free spirit. I like to be happy. I have to have more control of my happiness.
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Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
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Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
