Happiness Quotes
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A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.
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I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
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We think that it's the big moments that define our lives-the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really, these big moments of happiness are just the punctuation marks of our personal sagas. The narrative is written every day in the small, the simple, and the common. In your tiny choices, in these tiny changes. In the unconsidered. The overlooked. The discarded. The reclaimed.
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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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Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has had very little success with either one.
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Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.
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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 only the cart; love is the horse.
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Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.
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To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
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I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others in due course, I'll be given-or not given-the opportunity of benefiting from what I've learned. In any case, I'll have enjoyed the inestimable advantage of doing things I like doing and following my own inclinations.
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Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.
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Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.
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The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.
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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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He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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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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A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.
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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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We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.
