Happiness Quotes - Page 9

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband only another man would make me think that way.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Those who seek happiness miss it and those who discuss it lack it.

Holbrook Jackson

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Palmer Sondreal

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C.P. Snow

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

William Feather

Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of unhappiness.

Lao Tzu

The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.

Charles Caleb Colton

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.

Though language forms the preacher 'Tis "good works" make the man.

All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.

When you're in your nineties and looking back it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?

For attractive lips speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes seek out the good in people. For a slim figure share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.

What you become is what counts.

Liz Smith

If an Arab in the desert were suddenly to discover a spring in his tent and so would always be able to have water in abundance how fortunate he would consider himself so too when a man who ... is always turned toward the outside thinking that his happiness lies outside him finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Seren Kierkegaard

Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see like a rainbow or feel like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.

John B. Sheerin

Seek not outside yourself heaven is within.

If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly a good inner life is difficult to achieve especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.

It's what you do that makes your soul not the other way around.

Barbara Kingsolver

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

William Ralph Inge

I think the inner person is the most important. ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death.

There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.

Clare Boothe Luce

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing.

I am convinced that we must train not only the head but the heart and hand as well.

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

Live virtuously and you cannot die too soon or live too long.

Lady R. Russell

People see God every day they just don't recognize Him.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly eat slowly and lie about your age.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Marcus Aurelius

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply to enjoy simply to think freely to risk life to be needed.

To live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fashion to be worthy not respectable and wealthy not rich to study hard think quietly talk gently act frankly to listen to the stars and birds to babes and sages with open heart to bear on cheerfully do all bravely awaiting occasions worry never in a word to like the spiritual unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.

William Ellery Channing

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity Simplicity Sympathy and Serenity.

Manifest plainness Embrace simplicity Reduce selfishness Have few desires.

Lao Tzu

Fear less hope more eat less chew more whine less breathe more talk less say more love more and all good things will be yours.

Swedish Proverb

Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.

To live and let live without clamor for distinction or recognition to wait on divine Love to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart-this is the sanity and perfection of living and my human ideal.

Mary Baker Eddy

Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can At all the times you can.

Anonymous

Accept the pain cherish the joys resolve the regrets then can come the best of benedictions-"If I had my life to live over I'd do it all the same."

The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous he is free from anxieties wise he is free from perplexities bold he is free from fear.

Confucius

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Dr. Melba Colgrove

It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

Evelyn Underhill

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

Virtue like a dowerless beauty has more admirers than followers.

Lady Marguerite Blessington

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and truly laid.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

Marcus Aurelius

To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

T.S Eliot

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning earning and yearning.

Christopher Morley

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts-once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes a certain degree of courage self-denial to a point love of work and above all a clear conscience.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

From birth to age eighteen a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on she needs good cash.

To make a man happy fill his hands with work his heart with affection his mind with purpose his memory with useful knowledge his future with hope and his stomach with food.

Frederick E. Crane

For me happiness came from prayer to a kindly God faith in a kindly God love for my fellow man and doing the very best I could every day of my life. I had looked for happiness in fast living but it was not there. I tried to find it in money but it was not there either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be fundamental truths of life when I began to develop my limited ability to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts and fill it with zeal and courage and love when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly I began to feel the stimulating warm glow of happiness.

Work and love-these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us but is always the result of a good conscience good health occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson

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