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Happiness Quotes
"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak."
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"I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny."
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"What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."
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"What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?"
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"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."
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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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"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
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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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"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for."
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"With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue."
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"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die."
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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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"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable."
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"Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year."
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"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
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"It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch."
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"Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself."
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"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."
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"Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony."
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"Every single day, no matter who you meet in the day - friends, family, work colleagues, strangers - give joy to them. Give a smile or a compliment or kind words or kind actions, but give joy! Do your best to make sure that every single person you meet has a better day because they saw you."
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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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"You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace."
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"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."
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"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."
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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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"The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself."
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"Happiness often relies on one character trait: self-discipline."
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"Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."
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"Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all."
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"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."
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"One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing."
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