Happiness Quotes - Page 8

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

Anonymous

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something to secure it in this world we must do something.

Charlotte P. Gilman

To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you observe a really happy man you will find ... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life.

August Strindberg

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Aristotle

We must be doing something to be happy.

William Hazlitt

Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

We must not seek happiness in peace but in conflict.

Happiness walks on busy feet.

Our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.

A. Edward Newton

The busiest man is the happiest man.

Sir Theodore Martin

To be busy is man's only happiness.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

Florence Ellinwood Allen

Conscience as I understand it is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right regardless of personal ends and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

Margaret Collier Graham

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Lillian Hellman

The principles we live by in business and in social life are the most important part of happiness.

If you aren't good at loving yourself you will have a difficult time loving anyone since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Barbara De Angelis

Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony.

A good message will always find a messenger.

It's no good saying one thing and doing another.

Catherine Cookson

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Let how you live your life stand for something no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Erasmus

Resolve to be thyself and know that who finds himself loses his misery.

There is only one history of any importance and it is the history of what you once believed in and the history of what you came to believe in.

Kay Boyle

The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

Happiness is not something you get but something you do.

Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

Elton Trueblood

Everyone chases after happiness not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

Seek to do good and you will find that happiness will run after you.

James Freeman Clarke

Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.

Robert J. McCracken

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Søren Kierkegaard

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you and not you overtake it.

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

William Bennett

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Isabelle Eberhardt

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

Happiness in this world when it comes comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us on a wild-goose chase and is never attained. Follow some other object and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles safe on her nose all the time.

Happiness is not a goal it is a byproduct.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Dr. Benjamin Spock

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Happiness is not a horse you cannot harness it.

Chinese Proverb

We hear voices in solitude we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized it is a quality of thought a state of mind.

Daphne du Maurier

Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp but if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Rose Wilder Lane

To seek after beauty as an end is a wild goose chase a will-o'-the-wisp because it is to misunderstand the very nature of beauty which is the normal condition of a thing being as it should be.

This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea that very thing happiness which I have been pursuing all my life and have never yet overtaken.

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