Happiness Quotes - Page 104

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it, or whether it is so calm, so unassuming, so little ostentatious in itself, that words give an imperfect idea of it, I know not. It is easier to enjoy it, than define it. ... and is oftener found at home, when home has not been embittered by dissensions, suspicions and guilt, than any where else upon earth. Yes, it is in home and in those who watch there for us.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

HAPPINESS is ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?'

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.

Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.

the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.

One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.