Happiness Quotes - Page 5

Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.

Prince

No social system will bring us happiness health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

Clement R. Attlee

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all of the time.

If this world affords true happiness it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years where the necessities of life come without severe strain where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

A. Edward Newton

There are four things a child needs: plenty of love nourishing food regular sleep and lots of soap and water.

Ivy Baker Priest

Family jokes though rightly cursed by strangers are the bond that keeps most families alive.

An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Ouida

My father got me strong and straight and slim And I give thanks to him. My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet I kiss her feet.

Marguerite Wilkinson

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Margaret Fuller

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.

Anonymous

If solid happiness we prize within our breast this jewel lies And they are fools who roam the world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our bliss must flow And that dear hut-our home.

Nathaniel Cotton

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

Diana

He who would be happy should stay at home.

Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent two or no children at all.

Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered.

All the wealth of the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.

Saint Mary Margaret d'Youville

There's a thread that binds all of us together pull one end of the thread the strain is felt all down the line.

Rosamond Marshall

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer recognize and protect and comfort each other.

Han Suyin

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

Phyllis Bottome

You leave home to seek your fortune and when you get it you go home and share it with your family.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.

Bertrand Russell

Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.

E. Merrill Root

Life without absorbing occupation is hell.

Few persons realize how much of their happiness such as it is is dependent upon their work.

Joy is the will which labours which overcomes obstacles which knows triumph.

William Butler Yeats

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.

Parents however old they and we may grow to be serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around we can avoid the fact of our mortality we can still be innocent children.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.

Johann von Goethe

My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person born on the hottest day of the year conceived on a Christmas Eve made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.

Jean Illsley Clarke

Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.

Robert J. Havighurst

Where thou art that is home.

Emily Dickinson

Parenting at its best comes as naturally as laughter. It is automatic involuntary unconditional love.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Honoré de Balzac

It isn't our position but our disposition that makes us happy.

Anonymous

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

François de La Rochefoucauld

I went back to being an amateur in the sense of somebody who loves what she is doing. If a professional loses the love of work routine sets in and that's the death of work and life.

The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

John D. Rockefeller III

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

Harriet Martineau

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

Arthur Christopher Benson

To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.

If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness I would say "Work a little harder Work a little longer Work!"

Frederick H. Ecker

To make a man happy fill his hands with work.

Frederick E. Crane

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.

Sir Theodore Martin

Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat weariness self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces but lurking in cornfields and factories and hovering over littered desks.

Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.

Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

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