Happiness Quotes
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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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Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
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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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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
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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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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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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
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All I'm after is a few square metres to be myself. A space where I can continue to profess my creed: take the ball, give it to a team-mate, my team-mate scores. It's called an assist, and it's my way of spreading happiness.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Selfish people are, by definition, those whose activities are devoted to bringing themselves happiness. Yet. . . these selfish people are far less likely to be happy than those whose efforts are devoted to making others happy.
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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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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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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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Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
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Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
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Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.
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A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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Make happiness a daily habit!
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The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun.
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You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
