Quotes by Poets - Page 55

Joy is the will which labours which overcomes obstacles which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats
He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.
Johann von Goethe
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
Arthur Christopher Benson
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
Our Thoughts Determine Our Happiness High above hate I dwell 0 storms! Farewell.
Louise Imogen Guiney
Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Seldom can the heart be lonely If it seeks a lonelier still Self-forgetting seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.
Frances Ridley Havergal
All who would win joy must share it happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
Little deeds of kindness little words of love Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above.
Julia A. Fletcher Carney
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils light in your eyes flowers at your feet duties at your hand the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Yes there is a Nirvanah it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran
A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
Charles Baudelaire
For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth a book and a friend and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.
Fernandez de Andrada
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile a kind look a heart-felt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Juvenal
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
We must not seek happiness in peace but in conflict.
Paul Claudel
The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
Resolve to be thyself and know that who finds himself loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
There is only one history of any importance and it is the history of what you once believed in and the history of what you came to believe in.
Kay Boyle
Everyone chases after happiness not noticing that happiness is at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht
This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea that very thing happiness which I have been pursuing all my life and have never yet overtaken.
Joanna Baillie
Though language forms the preacher 'Tis "good works" make the man.
Eliza Cook
It's what you do that makes your soul not the other way around.
Barbara Kingsolver
To live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fashion to be worthy not respectable and wealthy not rich to study hard think quietly talk gently act frankly to listen to the stars and birds to babes and sages with open heart to bear on cheerfully do all bravely awaiting occasions worry never in a word to like the spiritual unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.
William Ellery Channing
For me happiness came from prayer to a kindly God faith in a kindly God love for my fellow man and doing the very best I could every day of my life. I had looked for happiness in fast living but it was not there. I tried to find it in money but it was not there either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be fundamental truths of life when I began to develop my limited ability to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts and fill it with zeal and courage and love when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly I began to feel the stimulating warm glow of happiness.
Edward Young
True happiness... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T.S Eliot
This is wisdom: to love wine beauty and the heavenly spring. That's sufficient-the rest is worthless.
Theodore De Banville
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Johann von Goethe
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do something to love and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.
J. C. F. von Schiller
Life is a romantic business but you have to make the romance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake
Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Alexander Pope
False happiness is like false money it passes for a long time as well as the true and serves some ordinary occasions but when it is brought to the touch we find the lightness and alloy and feel the loss.
Alexander Pope
Happiness to some is elation to others it is mere stagnation.
Amy Lowell
I love and the world is mine!
Florence Earle Coates
Even the lowliest provided he is whole can be happy and in his own . way perfect.
Johann von Goethe
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
Marge Piercy
Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings and yet be very respectable.
Ntozake Shange
The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Love is the only effective counter to death.
Maureen Duffy
I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth and what we can enjoy in this life I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!
Heinrich Heine
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
Don Marquis
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes And men grow better as the world grows old.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
Is life worth living? Aye with the best of us Heights of us depths of us- Life is the test of us!
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
Amanda Bradley
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
Henrik Ibsen
You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
Horace
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
May Sarton
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux