Happiness Quotes
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And if this wasn’t the happiness she had once so fiercely demanded, at least she had come to terms with life. That was probably as close to happiness as you could get.
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The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
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Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.
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Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.
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When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
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Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the harmony we desire. As we raise our level of consciousness we become more in tune with the true nature of our being. This type of awareness is not an accident; it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.
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I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.
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There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.
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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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I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don’t believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them.
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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 principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].
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That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
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The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.
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Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.
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If happiness is the rarest of blessings, it is because the reception of it is the rarest of virtues.
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Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.
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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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Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.
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Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
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Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
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Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt (closer than flesh) the presence of those who once had burned in such transfigurations. My happiness ran through the centuries in one continual brightness. Looking down, I saw the earth beneath me like a rose petaled with mountains, fragrant with deep peace.
