Happiness Quotes - Page 60

Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

Living well is the best revenge.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy it as well. This is called 'the enjoyment of others of our body of bliss'.

Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

These days, in our materialistic culture, many people are led to believe that money is the ultimate source of happiness. Consequently, when they don’t have enough of it they feel let down. Therefore, it is important to let people know that they have the source of contentment and happiness within themselves, and that it is related to nurturing our natural inner values.

Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.