Quotes
Quotes about Happiness
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.
Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sum what is light; Ask what is darkness of the night; Ask sin of what may be forgiven; Ask what is happiness of heaven; Ask what is folly of the crowd; Ask what is fashion of the shroud; Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss; Ask of thyself what beauty is.
Why love if losing hurts so much⦠I have no answers anymoreâ¦only the life I have lived⦠The pain now is part of the happiness (then).
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Thanks to Stace -Sydney Smith.
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. -G.W. Von Leibnitz.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Allan K. Chalmers.
I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.
Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Happiness is a positive cash flow.
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928.
The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? [Fr., Il ne se faut jamais moquer des miserables, Car qui peut s'assurer d'etre toujours heureux?]
