Happiness Quotes - Page 113

When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

When we are happy, those around us will be happy, and in turn, those around them will also start to feel the same way. We always have to start with ourself, and the best place to start is to do what makes you feel joyful.

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

Happiness comes from within

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.

The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.

So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Joy comes from using your potential.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?