Happiness Quotes - Page 147

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

Sebastian Faulks

(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.)

Stanley Cavell

Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ei.

Leo Tolstoy

Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.''It's the most we can hope for.

David Nicholls

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

Jane Austen

He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the handle, and dropped in a dollop of honey and cream. He sat by the window, cup in hand, watching the first snow fall. "I am," he sighed deeply, "contented as a clam. I am a most happy man.

Ethel Pochocki

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter's waking thoughts.

W.H. Auden

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.

Wallace Stegner

When you feel down and out you must reach up and out--to Spirit! Our strength will only resonate deep within your souls if you open your heart and minds with us.

Jim Fargiano

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

François Lelord

And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a serious happiness full of doubts and strengths. I wonder if happiness is possible. It is a state of mind, but I'd hate to be a bore all my life, if only because of those I love around me. Happiness can change into unhappiness just for the sake of change.

Jack Kerouac

Sonnez, grelots; sonnez, clochettes; sonnez, cloches!Car mon rêve impossible a pris corps et je l’aiEntre mes bras pressé : le Bonheur, cet ailéVoyageur qui de l’Homme évite les approches,- Sonnez grelots; sonnez, clochettes, sonnez, cloches!Le Bonheur a marché côte à côte avec moi;Mais la FATALITÉ ne connaît point de trêve :Le ver est dans le fruit, le réveil dans le rêve,Et le remords est dans l’amour : telle est la loi.- Le Bonheur a marché côte à côte avec moi.

Paul Verlaine

I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

Jane Austen

Pats cīnies, palīdz, domā, spried un sver,Pats esi kungs, pats laimei – durvis ver!

Rainis

We need but little learning to live happily.

Michel de Montaigne

I was uncomfortable enough. I was very uncomfortable, I may say unhappy.

Jane Austen

Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.

Marty Rubin

If you can't see a benefit of the challenges in the present, know that you're giving a present to your future." —Bright Side Up: 100 Ways to Be Happier Right Now

Amy Spencer

Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on

Armistead Maupin

You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.

Deborah Day

Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection--intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as opposed to periods of intimacy with a bunch of random faces.

Jess C. Scott

The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I look at the hundreds of algebra problems facing me in the next three days.And here I thought I’d figured out the equation to my happiness.

Elizabeth Eulberg

When I take a break, even just a brief one, the creative energy flows in. Only then do I have anything of value to share with others. Once I recognized this, I stopped feeling guilty about taking time for myself.

Holly Mosier

I think now that this is the great division between people. There are people who find life hard and those who find it easy. There are those who have a natural, in-built, expectation of happiness, and there are those who feel that happiness is not to be expected: that it is not, in fact, one of the rights of man. Nor, God knows, one of the rights of women.

Hilary Mantel

Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.

Bolesław Prus

As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

Charles Baxter

Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love.

Mollie Marti

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

Alain de Botton

Blame is the creed of the disempowered.

Steve Maraboli

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

Carole Glickfeld

Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going.

Deborah Day

count no man happy until he be dead.

Solon

Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.

Eugene O'Neill

Connection is life; disconnection, death.

Deborah Day

Yes - it was happiness she still wanted, and the glimpse she had caught of it made everything else of no account. One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities , and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation. "The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton

i'm too lazy to go find happiness,but i'm sure it will swing by sometime

Amal Sagheer

The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise.

Mark Sundeen

It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others.

Mervyn Peake

Sick of lame ducks, use Cosmic Ordering and your ducks will lay golden eggs.

Stephen Richards

The first law of attraction is use Cosmic Ordering now.

Stephen Richards

With Cosmic Ordering you can count your chickens before they have hatched.

Stephen Richards

When you use Cosmic Ordering you will move from cloud nine to cloud ten.

Stephen Richards

With Cosmic Ordering you will never eat humble pie again.

Stephen Richards

Yo no nací dichoso. De niño, mi himno favorito era: «Cansado del mundo y con el peso de mis pecados». A los cinco años yo pensaba que si había de vivir setenta no había pasado aún más que la catorceava parte de mi vida vital, y me parecía casi insoportable la enorme cantidad de aburrimiento que me aguardaba. En la adolescencia la vida me era odiosa, y estaba continuamente al borde del suicidio, del cual me libré gracias al deseo de saber más matemáticas. Hoy, por el contrario, gusto de la vida, y casi estoy por decir que cada año que pasa la encuentro más gustosa. Esto es debido, en parte, a haber descubierto cuáles eran las cosas que deseaba más y haber adquirido gradualmente muchas de ellas. En parte es debido también a haberme desprendido, felizmente, de ciertos deseos (la adquisición del conocimiento indudable acerca de algo) como esencialmente inasequibles. Pero en la mayor parte se debe a la preocupación, cada día menor, de mí mismo.

Bertrand Russell

Have fun life is better that way.

Rebecca Stebbins

Cosmic Ordering is a licence to print money.

Stephen Richards

Cosmic Ordering is an ever full piggy bank.

Stephen Richards

The proof of the pudding is in the Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

Cosmic Ordering is a dish best served today.

Stephen Richards

It’s a red sky every night with Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

Now your boat comes in every day with Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

No need to steal someone’s thunder, with Cosmic Ordering you can make your own.

Stephen Richards

Sweep the board with Cosmic Ordering Success.

Stephen Richards

Now beggars can be choosers with Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it.

Steve Maraboli

Why are you unhappy?Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one.

Wei Wu Wei

An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation and immense vistas. Not very far away are Death Valley, and Yosemite, and Sequoia Forest with its giant trees which were growing long before the Parthenon was built; they are the oldest living things in the world. One should visit such places often, and be conscious, in the midst of the city, of their surrounding presence. For this is the real nature of California and the secret of its fascination; this untamed, undomesticated, aloof, prehistoric landscape which relentlessly reminds the traveller of his human condition and the circumstances of his tenure upon the earth. "You are perfectly welcome," it tells him, "during your short visit. Everything is at your disposal. Only, I must warn you, if things go wrong, don't blame me. I accept no responsibility. I am not part of your neurosis. Don't cry to me for safety. There is no home here. There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses, your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it, and you will be happy.

Christopher Isherwood

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

Theodore Roosevelt

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