Happiness Quotes - Page 162

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.

Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Happiness hates the timid. So does science.

It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.

Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

Many friends are the key to happiness

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

Home was quite a place when people stayed there.

If I ever move in with a woman, she'll have to be really comfortable with unhappiness.

I'm pretty happy for someone who struggles with happiness.

Money can't buy happiness, unless you're favorite hooker's name is 'Happiness'.

The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

It really is easy to forget the unpleasant if we simply refuse to recall it. Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory bank. Let the others fade away. And your confidence, that feeling of being on top of the world, will zoom up-ward. You take a big step forward toward conquering your fear when you refuse to remember negative, self-deprecating thoughts.

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

Money comes and goes. I'm thankful I have money. I'm trying to save up more. I would like more money. But it's not happiness. If you're a millionaire and hate your family, hate your friends and your life, then what is the point? You're just a person with a lot of money and power who is not happy.

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness.

When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.

Our business is to be happy.

When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher... Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.

All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right of mankind to the produce of their labor and the pursuit of happiness.