Happiness Quotes
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Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.
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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
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Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.
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You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.
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She smiled and wanted to cry, too, for a moment. From happiness, she supposed. ‘What a wonderful day to be in love and be loved. I’m so happy.
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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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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 no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.
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I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.
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Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavors are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright: Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; And in himself posses his own desire
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The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
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The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.
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Happiness is not just an act of optimism - it is an act of defiance.
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So this is happiness, that journeyman.
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Nothing prevents happiness as much as the desire for more.
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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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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.
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Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in one's work.
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Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.
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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
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It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.
