Happiness Quotes - Page 27

• Learn how to feel joy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Joy, Feels

  10 Copy quote

• It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Happy, Clever

  29 Copy quote

• Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Joy, States

  John Hawkesworth, Samuel Johnson, Richard Bathurst, Joseph Warton (1793). “The Adventurer”, p.216

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Happy, Thinking, Have A Great Day

  8 Copy quote

• Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Seeking Happiness, Fearful

  Laozi (1919). “Laotzu's Tao and Wu Wei”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Inspiration, Contribution

  20 Copy quote

• Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

  William Wordsworth

  Giving, Earth, Pleasure

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.2107, Delphi Classics

  87 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Ideas, Busy, Interest

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Clive Giboire (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.

  Rajneesh

  Sound, Enjoyment

  Osho, Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Yoga Rabiya (Ma.), Ananda Vandana (Ma.), Prem Pankaja (Ma.) (1978). “The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?

  Robert Breault

  Sorrow

  11 Copy quote

• The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

  Theodosia Garrison

  Inner Peace, Habit, Break

  7 Copy quote

• Giggle potential is everywhere; we just need to slow down long enough to see it.

  Marilyn Meberg

  Long, Needs, Enough

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• He who is good is happy.

  William Habington

  William Habington, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1812). “Castara: With a Preface and Notes”, p.147

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• ‎In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  99 Copy quote

• Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Fighting, Effort, Strive

  8 Copy quote

• Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those precincts, and in that station where Providence itself has cast their lot. Happy they who read the riddle without a weary world-search, or a lifetime spent in vain!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Wish, Looks, World

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.606, Library of America

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.

  Francis Quarles

  Success, Science, Men

  'Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man' (1638) no. 4

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Heaven

  Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.28, U of Nebraska Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• My path is about Joy.

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Joy, Path

  8 Copy quote

• The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

  Garrison Keillor

  Men, Shallow, Mass

  9 Copy quote

• The air is like a butterfly
  With frail blue wings.
  The happy earth looks at the sky
  And sings.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Spring, Butterfly, Wings

  Joyce Kilmer (1946). “Joyce Kilmer”

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Fear, Sun, Shade

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1971). “The world of Gwendolyn Brooks”, Harpercollins

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

  Frank McCourt

  Believe, Too Much, Misery

  13 Copy quote

• It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

  Roberto Benigni

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thankful

  "Talking Shop At Oscar Time". Interview with Kenneth L. Woodward, www.newsweek.com. July 2, 1999.

  65 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

  Richard Bach

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Hands

  1977 Illusions.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source