Quotes by Writers - Page 21

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
George Sand
Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it except for a brief period the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
There are men who are happy without knowing it.
Vauvenargues
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
Chuang-tzu
There are only two things that are absolute realities love and knowledge and you can't escape them.
Olive Schreiner
An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Ouida
Life without absorbing occupation is hell.
Elbert Hubbard
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard
When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.
John Ruskin
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
Samuel Johnson
A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
Harriet Martineau
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.
François de La Rochefoucauld
All the goodness beauty and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.
Georgette Leblanc
I know well that happiness is in little things.
John Ruskin
It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson
Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.
Denis de Rougemont
Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
Cyril Connolly
That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
Samuel Johnson
Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
Isabelle Eberhardt
Those who seek happiness miss it and those who discuss it lack it.
Holbrook Jackson
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Samuel Johnson
The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.
Charles Caleb Colton
If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Virtue like a dowerless beauty has more admirers than followers.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts-once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes a certain degree of courage self-denial to a point love of work and above all a clear conscience.
George Sand
It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and no one can stop him.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm always lucid always willing "to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot " to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Cyril Connolly
When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds when I am happy a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy but I that make it sweet.
John Ruskin
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Charles Caleb Colton
Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.
Holbrook Jackson
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
There is nothing ridiculous in love.
Olive Schreiner
Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
What is it that love does to a woman? Without it she only sleeps with it alone she lives.
Ouida
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
Surfeits of happiness are fatal.
Baltasar Gracián
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Happiness: a good bank account a good cook and a good digestion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
Vauvenargues
His hair stood upright like porcupine quills.
Giovanni Boccaccio
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional forms and ceremonies.
Joseph Wood Krutch
In some remote regions of Islam it is said a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.
Raymond Mortimer
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
Syrus
Heavy hearts like heavy clouds in the sky are best relieved by the letting of water.
Antoine de Rivarol
Greed like the love of comfort is a kind of fear.
Cyril Connolly
It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.
La Rochefoucauld
The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.
Vauvenargues
No man ever yet became great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
Charles de Gaulle
The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism pride hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him indeed they will be regarded as high qualities if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.
Charles de Gaulle
One can build the Empire State Building discipline the Prussian army make a state hierarchy mightier than God yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
La Rochefoucauld