Happiness Quotes - Page 96

All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.

Go, forget me! why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me, and to-morrow Brightly smile and sweetly sing! Smile,—though I shall not be near thee; Sing,—though I shall never hear thee!

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

You can never learn anything that you did not already know

Happiness is a state of activity.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.