Happiness Quotes
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They did not speak, surprised to see how simple, almost poor, happiness could be, yes, materially poor and yet so abundant.
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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
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Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.
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Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.
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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
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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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How can we create a cultural legacy of happiness? Let other people matter.
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The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness.
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What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
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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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That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.
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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
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One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.
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The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
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There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.
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I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.
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My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.
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A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
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Sometimes my lyrics are about things that are, well, not the brightest, but I have been working with this outlook for such a long time that it's not dark to me anymore. It's just something that you work through and in the end, it's a lot of happiness.
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There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
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For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.
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I am interested in the idea that people should be able to define their own happiness.
