Quotes About Happiness

A hundred long leagues is no distance for him who would quench the thirst of covetousness; but a contented mind has no solicitude for grasping wealth.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

You need to be happy with yourself before you commit to somebody else for happiness

Look to this day,For it is life, the very life of life.In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existencethe bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.For yesterday is but a dreamAnd tomorrow is only a vision,But today well lived makesevery yesterday a dream of happinessand every tomorrow a vision of hope.Look well, therefore to this day,such is the salutation of the dawn.

Once, at Fredensborg, when Prince Christopher cried out that he wished he were grown up, his mother, the sensible Queen Olga, rebuked him. 'Remember these years,' she said quietly, 'you will always think back on them as the happiest of your life.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy.

Ja, Herr Baron, es gibt viele Wege, die zu zu Gott führen, und es gibt viele Wege, die zu Glück führen, dessen bin ich in meinem Herzen gleicherweise gewiss. Und der eine Weg ist gut und der andere Weg ist gut. Aber jeder gute Weg muss ein offner Weg und ein gerader Weg sein und in der Sonne liegen und ohne Morast und ohne Sumpf und ohne Irrlicht. Auf die Wahrheit kommt es an, und auf die Zuverlässigkeit kommt es an und auf die Ehrlichkeit.

Ja, Erinnerung ist viel, ist alles. Und die hab ich nun und bleibt mir und kann mir nicht mehr genommen werden. Und ich fühle ordentlich, wie mir dabei leicht zumute wird.

Abwechslung ist des Lebens Reiz, eine Wahrheit, die freilich jede glückliche Ehe zu widerlegen scheint.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

True, its people were much better off in material terms at the end of the century than at its outset, but man's sense of well-being depends upon comparison with others as well as upon his absolute condition.

In your rocking chair by your window shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.

Wenn man zwei Stunden verlobt ist, ist man immer ganz glücklich. Wenigstens denk ich es mir so. " "Und ist es dir denn gar nicht, ja, wie sag ich nur, ein bisschen genant? " "Ja, ein bisschen genant ist es mir, aber doch nicht sehr.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live – I have no use for the sour-faced man – and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it.

The greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing.

I did not then believe, and I do not now believe, that any man should ever attempt to make politics his only career. It is a dreadful misfortune for a man to grow to feel that his whole livelihood and whole happiness depend upon his staying in office. Such a feeling prevents him from being of real service to the people while in office, and always puts him under the heaviest strain of pressure to barter his convictions for the sake of holding office.