Quotes About Happiness

She laughed like a little silver bell.

Radomil was pretty. There was no other word for it. His hair, a rich golden blond, lay in waves on his head, framing a perfectly symmetrical face. A generous mouth stretched in a happy smile showing white teeth, a touch of stubble on the chin, high cheekbones, and glass-bottle-green eyes, framed in dense, dark blond eyelashes.

It's not always about one's personal happiness. Sometimes it has to be about the obligation we have to others. A duty to pay back for the gift you were given.

she thinks that everyone is much stupider than her. She's a classic sociopath: she's charming and manipulative, she believes she's entitled, she never genuinely feels guilt, and when she offers an apology, it's superficial. She mimics happiness and she can probably mimic love.

You can't smelt happiness out of a lie. The world doesn't work that way.

Being kind to people and paying attention shouldn't be done with the expectation of repayment. I helped them because I could, and it made me happy.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.

Sesuatu untuk dikerjakan, seseorang untuk dicintai, sesuatu untuk diharapkan. Itulah kebahagiaan.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination, resting solely on empirical grounds, and it is vain to expect that these should define an action by which one could attain the totality of a series of consequences which is really endless.

the cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness

No one may force anyone to be happy according to his manner of imagining the well-being of other men; instead, everyone may seek his happiness in the way that seems good to him as long as he does not infringe on the freedom of others to pursue a similar purpose, when such freedom may coexist with the freedom of every other man according to a possible and general law.

I express the principle of one's freedom as a human being in this formula: No one can compel me (in accordance with his beliefs about the welfare of others) to be happy after his fashion.

Only by what a man does heedless of enjoyment, in complete freedom and independently of what he can produce passively from the hand of nature, does he give absolute worth to his existence, as the real existence of a person. Happiness, with all its plethora of pleasures, is far from being an unconditioned good.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Cuanto más viene a ocuparse una razón cultivada del propósito relativo al disfrute de la vida y la felicidad, tanto más alejado queda el hombre de la verdadera satisfacción.

What would proceed from a continual promotion of living force, which does not let itself climb above a certain grade, other than a rapid death from delight?

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

The sight of a being who is not graced by any touch of a pure and good will but who yet enjoys an uninterrupted prosperity can never delight a rational and impartial spectator. Thus a good will seems to constitute the indispensable condition of being even worthy of happiness.

Das Lachen ist der Gesundheit zuträglich, denn es fördert die Verdauung.

I class the principle of moral feeling under that of happiness, because every empirical interest promises to contribute to our well-being by the agreeableness that a thing affords, whether profit be regarded.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La felicidad no brota de la razón sino de la imaginación (Immanuel Kant)

I express the principle of one's freedom as a human being in this formula: No one can compel me (in accordance with his beliefs about the welfare of others) to be happy after his own fashion.

We are enriched by not what we posses, but by what we can do without.