Happiness Quotes - Page 61

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

I feel that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.

when your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

The meaning of "He will give us all things" can be put thus: one day we will see that nothing - literally nothing - which could have increased our eternal happiness has been denied us, and that nothing - literally nothing - that could have reduced that happiness has been left with us.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Only a true weakling is capable of true courage.

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.