Happiness Quotes
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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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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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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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Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.
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...the greater part or my spring happiness is due to the scent of the wet earth and young leaves. I am always happy out of doors be it understood, for indoors there are servants and furniture, but in quite different ways, and my spring happiness bears no resemblance to my summer or autumn happiness, though it is not more intense, and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the decencies.
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Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.
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And I say it's not. I tell them these men and women are over there because our country sent them, and we have the absolute necessity to try to bring them as much happiness as we can.
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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.
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Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.
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Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.
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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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Unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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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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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.
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Where there is change, there is happiness.
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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.
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Be a dynamo of irrepressible joy!
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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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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
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Perfect the Will, the Mind, Feeling, their corporeal organs and their material tools; be useful to yourselves, to your own ones, and to others; and Happiness, insofar as it exists on this earth, will come of itself.
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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
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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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Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.
