Happiness Quotes - Page 136

It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods such as moments, days, or years? And to what extent are virtue and happiness linked?

As soon as you recognize that you are able to control your thoughts, happiness will come within your reach.

I just love listening to the laughter.

It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.

We have been accustomed to thinking that we have to get something from outside us in order to be happy, but in truth it works the other way: we must learn to contact our inner source of happiness and satisfaction and flow it outward to share with others-not because it is virtuous to do so, but because it really feels good.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Love does not end when we don't see each other.

I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me.

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an individual weight of calumny will be super-added.

What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.