Happiness Quotes
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We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
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Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.
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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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Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.
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I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.
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Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.
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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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The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.
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The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
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True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.
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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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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
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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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Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
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Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.
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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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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
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Where there is change, there is happiness.
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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.
