Happiness Quotes - Page 4

No man can be merry unless he is serious.

G.K. Chesterton

Happy [is] the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear inexorable fate and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

Virgil

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

For the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.

Mignon McLaughlin

If you want others to be happy practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Sophocles

The genius of happiness is still so rare is indeed on the whole the rarest genius. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.

Ellen Key

What matters most is that we learn from living.

Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

Johann von Goethe

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness is a resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.

Norman Bradburn

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!

Horace

Behold we count them happy which endure.

Bible

The will of man is his happiness.

J. C. F. von Schiller

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

Charlton Ogburn

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred

It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.

Anonymous

Happiness depends as Nature shows less on exterior things than most suppose.

There are only two things that are absolute realities love and knowledge and you can't escape them.

Olive Schreiner

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Epictetus

Money or even power can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Aristotle

Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it" or success.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.

Robert G. Ingersoll

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool-shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple-teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep-wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise-follow him.

Lady Isabel Burton

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

Sophocles

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Colette

With happiness comes intelligence to the heart.

Chinese Proverb

In the Orient people believed that the basis of all disease was unhappiness. Thus to make a patient happy again was to restore him to health.

Loving like prayer is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.

Zona Gale

The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick.

Bernie S. Siegel

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Anonymous

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind.

Thomas Jefferson

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

Sue Patton Thoele

Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."

Anonymous

The best things in life aren't things.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given the chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Joy has nothing to do with material things or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

William Barclay

Hope costs nothing.

Colette

Getting what you go after is success but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.

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