Happiness Quotes - Page 155

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.

The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

Life is a dance... Enjoy every step.

When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.

We tend not to choose the unknown, which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. An yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching.

True happiness comes from the realization that God has already made available everything we will ever need.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.

Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavors are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright: Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; And in himself posses his own desire

The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].

We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

Arrange photographs of nature scenes, animals and expressions of joy and love in your environment and let their energy radiate into your heart and provide you with their higher frequency.