Happiness Quotes
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I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
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Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.
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I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.
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So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.
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We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.
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How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
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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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Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.
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The way to find your happiness joy is to make a list of all the things that are fun for YOU to do. Then do some of those things everyday.
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Happiness was born a twin.
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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
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It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
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Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time; it's about loving what you have.
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Happiness isn't a state, it's a skill. It's the skill of knowing how to take what life throws your way and make the most of it.
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No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
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All happiness depends on courage and work.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.
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Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.
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Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.
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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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What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.
