Top 1200 Happiness And Beauty Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

Rihanna has revolutionized the beauty and lingerie industries, and that has an impact on the mental health of young women, who are measured by their beauty.

Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he believes in spring.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and moral philosophers will agree that the happiness of the individual is the end of man. From this principle it will follow that the form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest numbers of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best. All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes.

Chase your happiness in a way you desire rather than going for anybody else's or society's idea of happiness.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

Parties are organised happiness but happiness is accidental. You can't legislate for it.

Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think either that the other's pain may somehow be a cause of happiness for themselves or that their own happiness is more important, regardless of what pain it may cause. But this is shortsighted. No one truly benefits from causing harm to another sentient being. . . . . In the long run causing others misery and infringing their rights to peace and happiness result in anxiety, fear, and suspicion within oneself.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

I think beauty comes from actually knowing who you are. That's real beauty to me.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

Some people say there is a beauty about defending. Beauty is nice, but the most important thing is success.

We tend to Seek Happiness when Happiness is actually a Choice

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

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

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

Beauty attracts beauty. If you want to know what you are, look at what you are drawn to.

For this beauty, beauty without strength, chokes out life.

There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

I've been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

I believe inner beauty is beauty in its truest form. When we nurture ourselves, it brings an inevitable, positive transformation.

Gratitude is pure happiness. Happiness is sure perfection.

Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.

The word beauty is unavoidable … it accounts for my decision to photograph … There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight … through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

For me, there has never been one definition of beauty. I think we all have something to offer and when beauty shines from within, there can be no denying it

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.