Quotes About Happiness

Whenever religion becomes a depressing affair of burdens and prohibitions, it ceases to be true religion.

If you seem to be happy in this place of solitude, you will acquire a great reputation for wisdom, and I know, by my own experience, that under the cloak of a great reputation it is possible to hide whole treasures of folly. ("The Story of Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah")

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

The Angel that presided o'er my birthSaid, "Little creature, formed of joy and mirth,Go love without the help of any thing on earth."

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.

People who are not enjoying themselves very much always most dislike risking their lives.

Those were the years when I was truly happy. Knowing that is both a blessing and a curse. It's good to acknowledge that you found true happiness in your life - in that sense your life has not been wasted. But to admit that you will never be happy like that again is hard.

However long your stay on this small planet lasts, and whatever happens during it, the most important thing is that-from time to time-you feel life's sweet caress.

The failure of this experiment of communal service, which was tried for several years, and by good and honest men proves the emptiness of the theory of Plato and other ancients, applauded by some of later times, — that the taking away of private property, and the possession of it in community, by a commonwealth, would make a state happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars.

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

Happiness is neither virtue or pleasure nor this thing or that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

Who shall say I am notthe happy genius of my household?

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.

then to the dance, and make the sober moon... witness of joys that shun the sights of noon.