Happiness Quotes - Page 102

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education; bodily goods, such as strength, good health, beauty, and sound senses; and external goods, such as wealth, friends, good birth, good children, good heredity, good reputation and the like.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and direct all your energies towards it.

Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy.

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.

You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?

Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

People who live the most fulfilling lives are the ones who are always rejoicing at what they have.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.

And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.'

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.