Happiness Quotes
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She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.
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A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility
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Rely on no one. Depend on no one for your happiness. I am declaring my independence. I am establishing a republic unto myself. I am seceding from the human race.
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What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.
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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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I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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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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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy;but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappines, of other? I’d do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happines. That’s what’s at the heart of my music.
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You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.
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The universe holds enough happiness and success for everyone.
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Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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All suffering comes from cherishing ourselves. All happiness comes from cherishing others.
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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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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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Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.
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Either is both, and Both is neither.
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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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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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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.
