Happiness Quotes - Page 152

In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.

I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!

The things that make us happy make us wise.

True happiness springs from moderation.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

Happiness don't ask to see who you be afore her sits down at your table. 'Er comes and sits with them as know how to welcome her and keep her the willing guest.

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.

Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend?s happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.

Feel that you are happy without any cause for happiness.

We've got to be long distance runners on the spiritual path. We want to run as fast as we can, but at the same time realize that if God isn't at the end of that 100 yards, we don't fall flat of exhaustion. We've got to have whatever rhythm it takes to be able to go on for incarnations until we find that state of perfection we've been seeking.

Learn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary.

Happiness is self-generated. It depends on one's attitude of mind. The basis of happiness, is the simple fact that the deepest reality of our own nature is ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new joy.