Happiness Quotes
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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.
Anand Neelakantan -
A successful life is an authentic life. Happiness and creativity rest on a foundation of transparency to yourself and others. Knowing your own heart and speaking clearly to others keep you on the path.
Gay Hendricks
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Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.
Sarah Orne Jewett -
I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
Sylvia Kristel -
Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.
Emily Dickinson -
Forgiving is the ultimate source of peace, healing and inner happiness.
Nawang Khechog -
If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word of honor is God in man."
Ezra Taft Benson -
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis
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All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.
Arnold Lobel -
Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.
Keith Douglas -
Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.
Gautama Buddha -
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
Scott Adams -
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
William Cobbett -
No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
John Calvin
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Happiness too is inevitable.
Albert Camus -
Why worry about these small, small things? I don't stress. You never hear of anyone dying of happiness.
Fauja Singh -
Happiness is being married to your best friend.
Barbara Weeks -
The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy.
George Hodges -
If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
The way to happiness is: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, give much. Fill your life with love. Do as you would be done by.
Gautama Buddha
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Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.
Norman Lear -
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
Sydney Smith -
Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.
Charles Schwab -
... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward