Happiness Quotes - Page 137

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.

I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.

Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.

I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive.

There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?

Switch on and keep on in yourself the cheerful buttons... Those marked Joy, Laughter, Happiness, Love, Passion for life, Gratitude for life.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

So what is happiness? I am sure this question will be asked through the ages. And I doubt there is one answer for all people. Like heaven and hell, one person's happiness can be another person's unhappiness, which is why I'm not attempting to tell you what to do to find your happiness. I have enough trouble finding and hanging onto my own true happiness.

Happiness doesn't come and go, what comes and goes is your attunement to happiness.

The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness.

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!

While we are focusing on fear, worry or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

Come walk the path that leads to eternal happiness, joy, and everlasting life in the kingdom of our Heavenly Father.