Happiness Quotes - Page 134

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow.

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Real happiness is not dependent on external things.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

He who is good is happy.

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

The cut worm forgives the plow.

Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.

Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.