Happiness Quotes - Page 130

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy.

If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.

Forgiveness is the best revenge.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

The key to lasting happiness and real pleasure in this world is not found in seeking gratification, but in pleasing God. And while the Lord desires that we enjoy His gifts and the people to whom we are joined, He wants us to know that we were created first for His pleasure.

Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

There can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from the home.

You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.

Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.

My path is about Joy.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.