Happiness Quotes
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Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.
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Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.
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When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.
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Happiness and sadness are just two eternal truths like day and night. A man of superior intellect is never affected by these emotions. They are not base emotions at all but a reflection of our thoughts, a reaction to our perspective on things we see, hear and do. Equanimity is not only desirable in a warrior, but a must. Without it, you are as good as dead in the battlefield.
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If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.
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My friend I wish health to you, I also wish wealth to you; I wish the best that life can give to you, And may dreams always come true to you. May fortune to kind to you, And happiness be true to you; And love be so sweet to you And life be long and good to you. And in this toast we give to you Our love we all give to you.
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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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Rather happiness, peace or serenity is our natural state. Beneath all of what we add to our feelings and experience, beneath our self-contraction, lies serenity Itself.
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Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.
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The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
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The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
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Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
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Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled by another and another generation; renewing the face of the earth, and the bosom of the deep, with endless successions of life and happiness.
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There is no shame in preferring 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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She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.
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Everything good, everythimg magical happens between the months of June and August.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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I usually describe my father as a man given to impenetrable solitude. If I turn the phrase I can apply it to Johnny. Impenetrable happiness. For a long time I couldn't enter his life because his happiness, or appearance of happiness - his unending smiles - locked the door. An ingenious strategy, to surround the thorns with a castle.
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If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.
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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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Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness.
