Happiness Quotes
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
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You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.
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When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?
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Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.
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Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
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When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
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Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?
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As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment.
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Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.
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To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.
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With love one can live even without happiness.
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Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.
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I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.
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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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Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?
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I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
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Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
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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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A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness.
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I have no problem with the concept of financial riches, but if you need to change the person you are in order to achieve that, I think you're taking too much of a gamble with your personal happiness.
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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.
