Quotes About Reflection

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it you're not even aware, only afterwards do you know you were happy.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

What matters most is that we learn from living.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets.

There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain.

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.

No man can be merry unless he is serious.

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.

A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.

Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.