Happiness Quotations | Page 7

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender -not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

You can be right or you can be happy.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it

Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.

I'm happy, so I just want to project that happiness through my music to make other people happy.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise or diet, and he kept a candy drawer, drank a pot of black coffee every day, and read in the middle of the night. Still, he took such joy in being a dad - and in life in general - and his happiness showed.

The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Voting has not been tough for me, for the most part, because there's guideposts about what will bring about the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In fact, I seem not particularly inclined to write romantic love as a narrative motive or as an easy source of happiness for my characters.

I don't believe happiness comes out of material gain, for sure.

I am living my dream because I get to work with my kids and watch them find their happiness. It's so rewarding - we brainstorm around a conference table and have a really great time doing it.

My mantra is: Let there be happiness in my soul, and let me share it with the world.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.

I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

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.

Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

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.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.