Happiness Quotes - Page 128

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Happiness is a tiger in your tank and a pussycat in your back seat.

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

I believe in everything until it's disproved.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face.

God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.

I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American in every community has the right to pursue happiness.

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.

Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.