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Meaningful Quotes about Happiness
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love
our duty and find in it our pleasure.—Mme. de Motteville.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind.
Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.—Bovee
There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is
one of them. ~Vicki Baum
Happiness and virtue react upon each other,—the
best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the
best.—Lytton
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction
that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of
ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little
puppies. ~Gene Hill
Happiness.—He who is good is happy.—Habbington.
If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies;
And they are fools who roam:
The world has nothing to bestow,
From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear hut, our home.
—Cotton.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one
that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
The common course of things is in favor of happiness; happiness is the
rule, misery the exception. Were the order reversed, our attention would
be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and
want.—Paley.
Happiness and virtue react upon each other,—the best are not only the
happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.—Lytton.
God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they
know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable.
The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance
themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by
wronging himself.—Bishop Hall.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its
counterfeit!—Hosea Ballou.
Degrees of happiness vary according to the degrees of virtue, and
consequently, that life which is most virtuous is most happy.—Norris.
Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that
Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to
all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.—Dickens.
The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at
anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and
disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at
making himself easy now and happy hereafter.—Addison.
To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the
body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the
pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.—Tillotson.
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the
object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never
attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that
we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.—Hawthorne.
The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away
from the wretchedness of others.—J. Petit-Senn.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions,—the little,
soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt
compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless
other infinitesimals of pleasant thought and feeling.—Coleridge.
To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this
world.—Froude.
The happiness of the human race in this world does not consist in our
being devoid of passions, but in our learning to command them.—From the
French.
Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to
inspire.—Duchesse de Praslin.
The most unhappy of all men is he who believes
himself to be so.—Henry Home. |
