Quotes About Happiness

A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.

God Almighty first planted a garden: and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

If you are not happy for a minute, then you lost 60 seconds of happiness in your life

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

I loved it; I was living a dream.

How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life.

Men are made unhappy not because they fail to gratify some fixed set of desires, but by the gap that continually arises between new wants and their fulfillment.

What Rousseau asserts, and what becomes foundational in world politics in the subsequent centuries, is that a thing called society exists outside the individual, a mass of rules, relationships, injunctions, and customs that is itself the chief obstacle to the realization of human potential, and hence of human happiness.

The self-care and wellness movements are simply contemporary manifestations of Rousseau's vision of the "plenitude" of the inner self. That self is good, and its recovery is the original fount of human happiness. But it has been polluted by an outer society that feeds us unhealthy foods full of pesticides and artificial flavors, that sets goals and expectations that build anxiety and self-doubt, and by competitive urges that undermine our self-esteem.

La conexión entre ingreso y dignidad también sugiere por qué algo parecido a una renta universal garantizada, como solución a la pérdida de empleos por culpa de la automatización, no conseguirá la paz social ni hacer felices a quienes la reciban.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

Talk to yourself, smile at you(not laugh) once a day or else you will miss a golden chance to talk and smile for the day.

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.

Let all thy joys be as the month of May, And all thy days be as a marriage day.

Let all thy joys be as the month of May.

We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

Qué agradable es perder la noción del tiempo!

ONE AFTERNOON DURING THAT FINAL SPRING, AFTER SHE HAD TURNED THIRTY AURA TURNED TO ME FROM HER DESK WHILE I LAY ON THE BED READING, AND SHE SAID, 'WE HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED TO BE HAPPY. WE DONT HAVE TO BE RICH. WE CAN GET JOBS IN THE UNIVERSITIES IF WE NEED THEM. WE HAVE OUR BOOKS, OUR READING, OUR WRITING, AND WE HAVE EACH OTHER, FRANK. WE DONT NEED MORE TO BE HAPPY, WE ARE SO LUCKY. DO YOU KNOW HOW LUCKY WE ARE?

Izquierda era la de Mitterrand, la de Felipe González, a diferencia de la supuesta izquierda de Chávez o la de Castro, quien impuso la felicidad con la fuerza de las bayonetas…