Happiness Quotes - Page 107

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to be wanting for my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. O man, place not thy confidence in this present world!

Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.

Most people are searching for happiness. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves. That's a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

We're not happy unless we feel like we're growing.

Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

The only people who are truly happy are the people we do not know very well.