Happiness Quotes - Page 31

• The goal of all goals is happiness, and our emotions are like road signs on that journey toward the goal of happiness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Journey, Goal, Emotion

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• And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.132, Dial Press

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• Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

  Samuel Johnson

  "The Idler: With Additional Essays".

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• Call no man happy till he is dead.

  Aeschylus

  Death, Men, Died

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

  A. A. Milne

  Being Happy, Appreciation, Retirement

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• A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Desig". Book by Laurence G. Boldt (p. 100), 1993.

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• I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

  Sylvia Plath

  Nature, Air, People

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• All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.

  Doris Lessing

  Moving, Knowing, Skins

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

  Andre Gide

  Past, Order, Moments

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• I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Hurt, People

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 18, 2013.

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• Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Two, People, Cheesy

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.648, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Men, Mind

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler”, p.317

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• Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.

  Robert Breault

  Opposites, Traveler, Seeking

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• Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

  Robert Breault

  Giving Up, Giving, Sometimes

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• We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail.

  Julia Cameron

  Confused, Thinking, Baffled

  Julia Cameron (2013). “The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart”, p.24, Souvenir Press

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• I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Fun, Joy, Victory

  Lawana Blackwell (2007). “The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter (The Gresham Chronicles Book #2)”, p.509, Baker Books

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• If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

  A. Edward Newton

  Love, Life, Home

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• When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

  E.F. Benson

  Inner Peace, Eulogy, Attention

  E.F. Benson (2015). “Daisy's Aunt”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.

  Robert Holden

  Nature, Real, Flower

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• Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Medicine, Joy, Sorrow

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

  Hosea Ballou

  Happy, Real, Pay

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

  Akhenaton

  Inspirational, Happy, Wisdom

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• I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

  Mark Twain

  Happy, God, Men

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.182, Chartwell

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• All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 19

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