Quotes About Happiness

that the truly contented man is not the possessor of vast riches. The crown of happiness goes to the person who has the skill to gain money fairly, use it honorably, and not mistake gold for a god of power and light.

Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

This story has a happy ending.

Art is rooted in joy.

It was frightening, the extent to which a full belly made for a good mood.

Everything in me, right down to the pores of my skin, was expressing joy.

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it won't be for long.

Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.

Unable to conceive of a God who does not regard human happiness as the be-all and end-all of creation, they cannot accept the central paradox of religious faith: that the secret of happiness lies in renouncing the right to be happy.

Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove

knew that happiness, health, and security come from devoting yourself to two things—your family and your friends—and anything that doesn't bring you closer to both is pulling you in the wrong direction.

Maybe Ron Clarke wasn't being poetic in his description of Zatopek—maybe his expert eye was clinically precise: His love of life shone through every movement. Yes! Love of life! Exactly! That's what got Vigil's heart thumping when he saw Juan and Martimano scramble happy-go-luckily up that dirt hill. He'd found his Natural Born Runner.

Caballo was content to just sit alone under a tree, smiling and sipping a beer,

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

My father, who has derived such happiness from his childhood, found in me the companion with who, he could return there.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness…. There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Long ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers. They are the one stainless and unimpeachable achievement of the human race. It saddens me to think that I shall have to die with thousands of books unread that would have given me noble and unblemished happiness.

Indeed, if the good life entails nothing more than the joyless performance of good deeds, then it is not a life that is lived but merely one that is ploddingly enacted. How can we urge good character upon individuals and devise strategies for encouraging character if there is not an experiential payoff?

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