Happiness Quotes - Page 147

Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives. A determination to be of good cheer can help us and those around us to enjoy life more fully.

That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers — show me yours — show me that it is possible — show me your achievement — and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

So this is happiness, that journeyman.

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.

It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete.

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.