Happiness Quotes
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.
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The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy.
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
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The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.
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The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.
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I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
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Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.
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Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.
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We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.
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True happiness doesn’t distinguish between the kind of happiness you get from having fun and the sadness you feel when something goes wrong.
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It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.
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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.
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I've been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.
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He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
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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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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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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.
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The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
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Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.
