Happiness Quotes - Page 164

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.

That everybody can do something, without regard to how old or young they are, rich or poor or middle class they are, how busy or not busy they are and what level skills they have. Everyone can do something. And everybody should do something. ... And if you do it, you'll be happier.

The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.

Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.

My soul had found All happiness in its own cause or ground. Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot Those amorous cries that out of quiet come And must the common round of day resume.

Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.

Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you.

The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.

But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

There are no rules for felicity.