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Happiness Quotes
"What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?"
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"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves."
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"Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness."
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"Happiness is there when expectations meet the reality."
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"We are as happy as we think we are."
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"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."
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"I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness."
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"Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared."
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"There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness."
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"So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness."
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"Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness."
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"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."
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"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."
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"Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all."
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"Be happy NOW. Feel good NOW. That's the only thing you have to do. And if that's the only thing you get from reading this book, then you have received the greatest truth of The Secret."
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"If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?"
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"Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny."
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"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
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"Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others."
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"Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain."
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"The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness."
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"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others."
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"Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance."
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"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable."
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"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."
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"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."
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"Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool."
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"How happy is the little stoneThat rambles in the road alone,And doesn't care about careers,And exigencies never fears;Whose coat of elemental brownA passing universe put on;And independent as the sun,Associates or glows alone,Fulfilling absolute decreeIn casual simplicity."
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"I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is."
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"Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence."
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"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances."
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"I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure."
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