Happiness Quotes
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So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
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Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.
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He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.
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Where there is change, there is happiness.
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The day of individual happiness has passed.
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Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
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The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.
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One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
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The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.
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Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.
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You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human race? The pursuit of happiness. Not happiness. The pursuit.
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.
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There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.
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The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.
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Seeking happiness apart from a right relationship God is like trying to turn on a light that's unplugged.
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No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.
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It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.
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A conductor's happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!
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Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.
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Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.
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Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.
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Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.
