Quotes About Happiness

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are recklessly wasted or thrown away.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

the irreversibility of things is a kind of death at the heart of life and threatens constantly to steer us into time past- the home of nostalgia, guilt, regret and remorse, the great spoilers of happiness.

the adorable yappings of a young puppy!

In the technological world...it is no longer a question of dominating nature or society in order to be more free or more happy, but of mastery for mastery's sake, of domination for the sake of domination. Why? For no end, precisely, or rather: because it is quite simply impossible to do otherwise, given the nature of societies entirely governed by competition, by the absolute imperative to 'advance or perish'.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Una cosa sé de la muerte. Cuanto "mejor" es la persona, cuanto más cariñosa, feliz y comprensiva, menor es el vacío que deja su muerte.

There was no way I could explain that it had all happened so fast, that I wasn't smiling away at the cats chewing the birds. It was that my happiness about the sweet peas and the finches hadn't had time to fade. As

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.