Happiness Quotes
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I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.
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Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
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Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.
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All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.
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Life isn't about wishing you were somewhere, or someone that you're not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are and consistently improving both.
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The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.
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Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.
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Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
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The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.
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The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.
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The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.
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Detest it as lewd intercourse, it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid's postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son János from any further attempt.
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Freedom for me is the sacred right to think ... education is the fundamental part for social happiness: it is the principle on which liberty rests, and the growth of all towns.
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And happiness has it's own way of taking its sweet time.
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Labor is the law of happiness.
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Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
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What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
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Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
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It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?
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One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
