Happiness Quotes
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Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.
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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.
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To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.
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Unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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There is no real happiness in having or getting, but only in giving.
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Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook." And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they're doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel-and then, you'll love them all. Because the only reason you don't love them, is because you're using them as your excuse to not feel good.
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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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I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
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I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.
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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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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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When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.
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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty.
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happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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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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Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well
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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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The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
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Don't stay watching happiness, make it.
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Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.
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Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.
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The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.
