Quotes
Quotes about Happiness
The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.
Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. - George Washington,
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, "Joy is not in things, it is in us.".
Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. -Alphonse de Lamartine.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
The greatest happiness of the greatest number. [Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero.]
Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
