Quotes About Happiness

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.

Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate…. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.

We may be particularly inclined to acquire and retain beliefs that make us feel good.

Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love - through loving and being loved.

Algunos suspiran durante toda la semana hasta que suceden cosas nuevas, convierten en parte de la felicidad de sus vidas el estudiar cómo va el estado, más que el estudiar cómo marchan sus propios corazones, o incluso sus propios negocios. Sin embargo, no piensan en las miserias de la iglesia de Cristo, ni ayudan con sus oraciones.

Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies.

To each his suff'rings: all are men,Condemn'd alike to groan,The tender for another's pain,Th' unfeeling for his own.Yet ah! why should they know their fate,Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies?Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Yet, ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their Paradise. No more;—where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, Ah, fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret To think more happy thou hadst been If we had never met.

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

And there is even a happinessThat makes the heart afraid.

So mayst thou live, dear! many years, In all the bliss that life endears,...

We are unhappy, he explained, because we are slaves to our desires. Extinguish desire and suffering goes with it. If people could be taught that the physical or phenomenal world is illusion, then they would cease their attachment to it, thereby finding release from their self-destructive mental bondage.

The original teachings of the Buddha are more a philosophy than a religion, for they admit no supreme god, nor do they propose any salvation other than that attainable through human diligence. The aim is temporal happiness, to be realized through asceticism—which was taught as a practical means of turning one's back on the world and its incumbent pain.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you're a rich man….