Happiness Quotes
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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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Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
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Happiness eludes us if we run after it.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.
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Bullies enjoy dark happiness; these are the blank parts that eventually fill their minds with nothingness.
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Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.
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It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.
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Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.
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I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
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Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what that means – it means the movie has an unhappy ending.
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The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their own soul.
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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
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What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.
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It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.
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And happiness has it's own way of taking its sweet time.
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Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.
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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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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
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Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all it takes to get a happiness boost over time.
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Since there is no place large enough to contain so much happiness, you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you into everything you touch. You are not responsible. You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit for the moon, but continues to hold it, and share it, and in that way, be known.
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All happiness depends on courage and work.
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A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.
