Happiness Quotes
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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
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When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.
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The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
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It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.
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Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
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People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
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We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.
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My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
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All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.
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Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.
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Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
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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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There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
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One of the outstanding tragedies of this age of struggle and money-madness is the fact that so few people are engaged in the effort which they like best. Everyone should find his or her particular niche in the world's work, where both material prosperity and happiness in abundance may be found.
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Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.
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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.
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There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.
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Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.
