Happiness Quotes
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One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to me. There's plenty of research about people having a baseline of happiness that doesn't vary much with circumstances. And given that happy people are typically optimistic, energetic, and fun to work with, I can see how happiness would lead to success.
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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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Love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.
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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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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
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You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.
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It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.
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Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.
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I like to call myself an "equal opportunist," as I love both dogs and cats, but over the last couple years, both Howard and I have become champions for cats. They are so independent and loving and playful and bring such happiness to our lives.
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
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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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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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Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.
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One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
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The universe holds enough happiness and success for everyone.
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Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There's no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.
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Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?
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Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.
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Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
