Happiness Quotes
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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 state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.
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Choose your words wisely, because they will influence your happiness, your relationships, and your personal wealth.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.
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Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.
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My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
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But I don’t think anyone should have the right to crush happiness or beauty when they see it.
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It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.
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Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.
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So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
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Happiness wishes everybody happy.
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For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.
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We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and planted trees. All our everyday efforts have one objective: Happiness.
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I think one of the things we have in this modern, individualistic age is a recognition that happiness can look very different for very different people. Happiness is not necessarily about how much money you make, happiness isn't necessarily about these aspects of your life.
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Seeking the kingdom of God leads to joy and happiness.
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Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!
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I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.
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For the memory is selective and it is easier to remember what one wants to remember, so if I have to chose between the splendour and the miseries, I will chose the moments of happiness in spite of the fact that there are few situations in which men and women are completely happy and completely free.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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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.