Happiness Quotes - Page 93

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.

We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.

Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to.

People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

A combination of all that was best in the gladdest days of the departing year.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.

Use the freest goods for happiness... The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And yet they are all infinitely precious.

Your intention to love, no matter what, is the absolute key to happiness.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you.