~ Happiness Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Joy has nothing to do with material things or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

William Barclay

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To seek after beauty as an end is a wild goose chase a will-o'-the-wisp because it is to misunderstand the very nature of beauty which is the normal condition of a thing being as it should be.

Ada Bethune

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Small kindnesses small courtesies small considerations habitually practiced in our social intercourse give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.

Mary Ann Kelty

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us but is always the result of a good conscience good health occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Love by its very nature is unworldly and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Hannah Arendt

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

Hugh Black

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance.

Arthur Schopenhauer

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]For the rational psychologically healthy man the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

Nathaniel Branden

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When love is out of your life you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going you have such vitality to do things big things because love is goosing you all the time.

Fanny Brice

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow too but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris a lark a bluebird or a dewy morning glory.

Mary McLeod Bethune

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]At rare moments in history by a series of accidents never to be repeated arise flower societies in which the cult of happiness is paramount hedonistic mindless intent upon the glorious physical instant.

Colm Maclnnes

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Conscience as I understand it is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right regardless of personal ends and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

Margaret Collier Graham

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go; Scatter bits of courtesy-watch them grow and grow. Gather buds of friendship keep them till full-blown; You will find more happiness than you have ever known.

Amy R. Raabe

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbow's end. ... Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.

Ken Keyes