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Happiness Quotes
"Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning."
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"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit."
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"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
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"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."
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"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
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"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own."
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"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
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"Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness."
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"So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some."
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"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin."
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"Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror."
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"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."
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"Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you're ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk and time to sack out in it and he's as happy as a worm in an apple - asleep."
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"I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books , music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire?"
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"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure."
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"Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit."
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"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
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"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
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"Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life."
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"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
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"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
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"There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it."
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"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 not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."
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"Happiness often relies on one character trait: self-discipline."
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"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."
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"The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted."
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"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
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"For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else's face."
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"We can give happiness a chance: happiness is learnable. Life is a choice and happiness is a question of focusing, hearing and seeing the right things behind the appearances. It is a matter of finding out, differencing worthiness and irrelevance, connectedness and distantness, warmth and aloofness, brightness and dimness. Happiness is the lucky potential to steer friskily along the cliffs of the unknown avoiding the obstacles of narcissism and conceit. [' Happiness blowing in the wind. ']"
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