Quotes About Happiness

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.

Under all this lies the familiar logical fallacy, never expressed, but really the point of the whole, that we shall get perfect happiness if we put ourselves in the hands of the world-reformer. We

What have our ancestors been striving for, under the name of civil liberty, for the last five hundred years? They have been striving to bring it about that each man and woman might live out his or her life according to his or her own notions of happiness and up to the measure of his or her own virtue and wisdom. How

A television reporter once asked Bob Marley, "Are you a rich man?" The musician replied warily, "What you mean rich?" The reporter clarified his question: "You have a lot of possessions? A lot of money in the bank?" Marley responded with a question of his own: "Possessions make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is life, forever.

Both God and man, between whom Christ comes to negotiate, call for holiness—God's glory and man's happiness; neither of which can be attained except holiness be restored to man. Not God's glory, who, as he is glorious in the holiness of his own nature and works, so is he glorified by the holiness of his people's hearts and lives.

You have, may be, heard of the covetous man, that hugged himself in the many bags of gold he had, but never opened them or used them. When the thief took away his gold, and left him his bags full of pebbles in the room, he was as happy as when he had his gold, for he looked not on the one or other. And verily an ignorant person is in a manner no better with truth than error on his side. Both are alike to him, day and night all one to a blind man.

may say to thee as Constantine did to Acetius the Novatian, 'Set then up thy ladder, and go to heaven by thyself, for never any went this way thither;' and dost thou think to be the only man that shall appear in heaven purchaser of his own happiness?

Are not heaven and happiness things desirable, and to be preferred before sin and misery? Why then do you not embrace them? Or are they the worse because they come swimming to you in the blood of Christ?

Love to joy is as fuel to the fire.

Why have You made us the saddest animal? (...) He cannot do it, Henry, that is why. He can't continue us. All He can do is try to make us happy that we die. Really, He's a pretty good fellow.

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.

Someone who remains satisfied with the superficial pleasures of life is ignorant of the agitation deep within the mind. He is under the illusion that he is a happy person, but his pleasures are not lasting, and the tensions generated in the unconscious keep increasing, to appear sooner or later at the conscious level of the mind. When they do, this so-called happy person becomes miserable. So why not start working here and now to avert that situation?

el Buda anunció: "La mente precede a todos los fenómenos, la mente es lo que más importa. La mente lo produce todo. Si con una mente impura hablas o actúas, entonces el sufrimiento te sigue, como la rueda del carro sigue la huella del animal uncido. Si con una mente pura hablas o actúas, entonces la felicidad te sigue como una sombra que nunca se separa"3.

si nos convertimos en científicos de la realidad interior, utilizaremos adecuadamente la ciencia para la felicidad de todos.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.

when I see an author on this week's talk show promoting his Secret to Happiness, I can't help wondering what happened to last week's Secret on the same show.

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 no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.