Happiness Quotes - Page 12

Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

Baltasar Gracián

If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

Horace

When a man has lost all happiness he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Sophocles

Whether you are talking about education career or service you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence

Aristotle

Happiness is the only sanction in life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

The pursuit of happiness ... is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

A good laugh makes any interview or any conversation so much better.

Barbara Walters

I love myself when I am laughing.

Zora Neale Hurston

Everyone without exception is searching for happiness.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Joseph Wood Krutch

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

. . . the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks the valleys also are covered over with corn they shout for joy they also sing.

Bible

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

Emily Dickinson

At rare moments in history by a series of accidents never to be repeated arise flower societies in which the cult of happiness is paramount hedonistic mindless intent upon the glorious physical instant.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.

A. Edward Newton

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

If we cannot live so as to be happy let us at least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann von Fichte

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Cicero

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

Man is fond of counting his troubles but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I am happy and content because I think I am.

Alain-Rene Lesage

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

William Maxwell

Happiness: a good bank account a good cook and a good digestion.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

The will of man is his happiness.

Friedrich von Schiller

Man's happiness springs mainly from moderate troubles which afford the mind a healthful stimulus and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits.

E. Wigglesworth

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is rightly more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one has to do.

James M. Barrie

True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy but never an interested person who was unhappy.

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.

Charlton Ogburn

Happiness comes fleetingly now and then To those who have learned to do without it And to them only.

I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.

George Santayana

Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Euripides

Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Lytton Strachey

For the rational psychologically healthy man the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

Nathaniel Branden

It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

If thou workest at that which is before thee following right reason seriously vigorously calmly without allowing anything else to distract thee but keeping thy divine part pure as if thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately if thou holdest to this expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

Marcus Aurelius

Anarchy is against the law.

Graffiti

Back of tranquility lies always captured unhappiness.

Happiness is a mystery like religion and it should never be rationalized.

G.K. Chesterton

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

Bible

Man is preceded by forest followed by desert.

French graffiti

For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books.

Augusta Scattergood

Don’t let psychological warfare from an advertisement campaign blind you from the truth of your beauty, possibility, worthiness, and purpose.

One hundred eighty days, Aislinn. Seth's been gone for one hundred eighty days, and I've watched you try to pretend it doesn't hurt for every one of them. Can't I try to make you happy?

If you shatter the fish bowl so that everything is possible you don't have freedom you have paralysis. Everybody needs a fishbowl.

A man cannot despair if he can imagine a better life, and if he can enact something of its possibility. It is only when I am ensnarled in the meaningless ordeals and the ordeals of meaninglessness, of which our public and political life is now so productive, that I lose the awareness of something better, and feel the despair of having come to the dead end of possibility.

[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.

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