Happiness Quotes
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Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.
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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.
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The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy.
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Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.
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Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.
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Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.
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True happiness comes from the realization that God has already made available everything we will ever need.
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
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What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
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Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.
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I give you my spirit, my flesh and my memories. Every drop of my blood sings our song. A song of happiness. There… Do you hear it?
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Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
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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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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
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The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
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Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.
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Sun, silence, and happiness.
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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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Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.
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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
