Happiness Quotes - Page 124

Is anyone anywhere happy?

Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it.

Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.

To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

"Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Happiness is contagious. Be a carrier!!

Making a wholehearted commitment to being happy is a powerful medicine.

Some people CHASE happiness. And some people CHOOSE happiness.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

Make us happy and you make us good.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.