Happiness Quotes - Page 7

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.

Charles Baudelaire

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile a kind look a heart-felt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth a book and a friend and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.

Fernandez de Andrada

A happy life is made up of little things ... a gift sent a letter written a call made a recommendation given transportation provided a cake made a book lent a check sent.

Yes there is a Nirvanah it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.

First health then wealth then pleasure and do not owe anything to anybody.

Catherine the Great

I know well that happiness is in little things.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones not the birthdays the graduations the weddings not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.

Susan B. Anthony

I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.

What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating drinking and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

Sarah Bernhardt

It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and after these the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

The little things are infinitely the most important.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money as long as we get our hands on it?

Ivy Baker Priest

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Elsa Schiapirelli

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

Benjamin Franklin

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Having a goal is a state of happiness.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Phillips Brooks

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

Luigi Pirandello

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea in the conquest of the goal pursued.

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly one-directionally without regret or reservation.

William H. Sheldon

A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.

Marcus Aurelius

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

William J. Locke

True happiness we are told consists in getting out of one's self. But the point is not only to get out you must stay out. And to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!

Christian Furchtegott Gellert

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accom plished something.

Happiness lies in the joy of achieve ment and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Without duty life is soft and bone less.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.

Lady Marguerite Blessington

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Never mind your happiness do your duty.

In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong but something greater: it seems inevitable.

Margaret Sherwood

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.

William Feather

Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.

Denis de Rougemont

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

Epictetus

Happiness comes from ... some curious adjustment to life.

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

Sir James M. Barrie

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Ken Keyes

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

Life is not always what one wants it to be but to make the best of it as it is is the only way of being happy.

Jennie Jerome Churchill

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Juvenal

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty then happiness comes of itself.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Happiness is action.

I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action.

I want a busy life a just mind and a timely death.

Zora Neale Hurston

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