Happiness Quotes - Page 160

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Wine is only sweet to happy men.

The happy man's without a shirt.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

I wish you wusses would stop whining about your unhappiness. I'm really fed up with it. Pour yourself a scotch and pull yourself together. Go out and shoot something!

Whether they be old or young, rich or poor, high or low, wise or foolish, ignorant or learned, every individual is seen to be strongly actuated by a desire to be seen, heard, talked of, approved and respected... a passion for distinction.

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centred. What you are pursuing is meaning- a meaningful life... There are times when it will go so wrong that you will be barely alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

...morbidly, attracted him to strangeness, to recklessnesss, even unhappiness.

It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.

Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.

It was difficult to enjoy the trees and flowers when I was so aware of all that I had not yet done - pruning, weeding, transplanting, mulching, composting, tagging. When I was doing the work myself, I was happy, free.

Happiness is transparent. ... That is its virtue.

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

I'll say it again, for every moment you're with the wrong person, you are robbing yourself and the right person of the opportunity to find real happiness.

A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

Call no man happy before he dies.