Happiness Quotes
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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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That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
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I know well that happiness is in little things.
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Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.
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Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.
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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
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The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
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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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Welcome a new opportunity gifted to you once again for Happiness, Inspiration, Passion & Courage to endure… The opportunity is known as, “Good Morning“
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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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Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
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There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.
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There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
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While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.
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It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.
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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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And happiness has it's own way of taking its sweet time.
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Happiness may have but one night, as glory but one day.
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Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
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This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.
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Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but what happens inside of you.
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If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
