Happiness Quotes - Page 165

Those self-evident principles of life and liberty, pursuit of happiness, they're not self-executing. They require each of us to get engaged. And what Barack Obama is really concerned about is to ensure that the American people appreciate their power to influence the democracy.

My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.

I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

The days of life are consumed, one by one, without an object beyond the present moment; ever flying from the ennui of that, yet carrying it with us; eternally in pursuit of happiness, which keeps eternally before us. If death or bankruptcy happen to trip us out of the circle, it is matter for the buzz of the evening, and is completely forgotten by the next morning.

You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.

Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow.

On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I, No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.

One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain.

Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha." "I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!

It's tough at the top. It's tough at the bottom. But in between you could use them for horse-shoes.

I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

One cannot revoke a true happiness.

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.

You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.

Affirm continuously to yourself: I am in the right place, at the right time, for the right purpose.