Happiness Quotes
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In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.
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Every single one of us already has everything we need to be the happiest person on earth; it's simply up to us to remember that in every moment.
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No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
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Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.
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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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You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.
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Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
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It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
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The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else's dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness.
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There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
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To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.
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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.
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Unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness.
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Happiness arises as a result of different causes and conditions. If you harm someone out of anger, you may feel some superficial satisfaction, but deep down you know it was wrong. Your confidence will be undermined. However, if you have an altruistic attitude, you’ll feel comfortable and confident in the presence of others.
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Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.
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The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.
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I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.
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I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.
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The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.
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Happiness eludes us if we run after it.
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... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears.
