Quotes About Happiness

The flip side of credit is blame. A tendency to blame others, or circumstances, is generally a recipe for unhappiness in life.

Chuang Tzu had an apt view on such quiet receptivity: "There is happiness in stillness.... If you are open to everything you see and hear, and allow this to act through you, even gods and spirits will come to you."6

A path is formed by walking on it.... When there is a separation, there is coming together. When there is a coming together, there is dissolution. All things may become one, whatever their state of being. Only he who has transcended sees this oneness. He has no use for differences and dwells in the constant. To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness.22

The purpose of life and the meaning of history is that God will deliver humanity from the misery of sin and restore the conditions that enable individuals and peoples to relate rightly with him. Morality and happiness are inseparably linked with salvation.

He saw the pleasure you took from your job every day of his life, and THAT was what he wanted.

Smiles are the language of love.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

The great end of all human industry, is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object, of his being.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.

The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.

El trabajo es el ingrediente principal de la felicidad a la cual aspiras, y toda alegría se hace pronto insípida y desagradable cuando no proviene de fatiga e industria.

Some men are possessed of great strength of mind; and even when they pursue external objects, are not much affected by a disappointment, but renew their application and industry with the greatest chearfulness. Nothing contributes more to happiness than such a turn of mind.

He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.

Without expectations we live in the present, not the future, and we enjoy each moment as it happens without destroying that enjoyment with the disappointment of unfulfilled expectations.

A baby is a small member of the home that makes love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, the bank roll smaller, the home happier, the clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for. —Laurens van der Post and Jane Taylor

more money doesn't mean more better. It just means more.