Happiness Quotes - Page 151

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.

When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness.

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.

Some people have a view of self and of the universe that obliges them to struggle for happiness, to yearn for happiness-"some time in the future"-perhaps next year or the year after that. But not now. Not at this moment. Not here. Here and now is too terrifyingly close, too terrifyingly immediate. They suffer from happiness anxiety.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen, they said that we had certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator, and among these life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, life being one of them. I still believe that.

Social comparison that leads to unhappiness is the downside of social media.

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men - yes, black men as well as white men - would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

Shared laughter is erotic too.

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.

To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.

Happiness is a choice; not just a matter of genes or good luck.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence.

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.

Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.