Happiness Quotes - Page 108

Happiness is seasonal, like anything else

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don't you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied.

If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Learn how to feel joy.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.

If you do not decide to be happy, very few people can make you happy. If you decide to be happy, very few people can make you unhappy.

It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

We can only know others by ourselves.

Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.

Happiness is not in things; happiness is in you.

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

Break open the forbidden happiness.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship