Happiness Quotes - Page 86

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.

Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists--merely in the imagination.

After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

nothing is impossible

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.

True happiness is born of letting go of what is unnecessary.

It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

All this world is but a play... be thou the joyful player.

I also believe that few people remain completely untouched by the thought that instead of the life they lead there might also be another, where all actions proceed from a very personal state of excitement. Where actions have meanings, not just causes. And where a person, to use a trivial word, is happy, and not just nervously tormenting himself.

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.

Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.