Quotes About Happiness

I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverance for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely, but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

If you're not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, if you're not enthusiastic about doing that, you're not going to be successful.

We only do well the things we like doing.

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty.

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)

The problem is not that you cannot have what you think you want. The problem is that when you get what you think you want, it won't satisfy.

The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

He has achieved success, who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children.

God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

Success is like a liberation, or the first phase of a love affair.

Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.

All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Happy the man, and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who, secure within can say, "Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today."

This is the day which the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.