Happiness Quotes
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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
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You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.
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All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.
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Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
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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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Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
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Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.
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Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.
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Always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives.
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Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
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As long as you have not set fire to everything you call yours, you are not alive. You are not here! Your happiness is not real.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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Delusion gives you more happiness than truth gives to me. For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.
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The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves.
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Joys divided are increased.
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All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.
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Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good-adding value to the world.
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One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.
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What's our baggage? Only vows, Happiness, and all our care, And the flower that sweetly shows Nestling lightly in your hair.
