Top 1200 Happiness And Sadness Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.

Life is Happiness. Happiness is the fact that I can do something right now.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

Happiness doesn't come and go, what comes and goes is your attunement to happiness.

But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.

Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.

I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped in the great sadness, pervaded by it. Existence had no use. It was without end or reason. The most beautfiul things in it, a flower or a song, as well as the most compelling, a desire or a thought, were pointless. So great a sorrow. And I knew that the only rest from my anxiety—for I had been trembling even in infancy—lay in acknowledging and absorbing this sadness.

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

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.

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within.

A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of laughter more terrible than any sadness-a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness, and that happiness is my tail. Therefore, I am chasing it: and when I catch it. I shall have happiness." Said the cat, "My son, I, too, have paid attention to the problems of the universe. I, too, have judged that happiness is in my tail. But, I have noticed that whenever I chase it, it keeps running away from me, and when I go about my business, it just seems to come after me wherever I go.

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

Now I find my happiness in my music, what I'm doing in the ring, and being a mom. No one thing controls my happiness.

Happiness is the struggle towards a summit and, when it is attained, it is happiness to glimpse new summits on the other side.

To me, 'success' is happiness and my top tip for happiness would be to understand and learn to use perspective.

All around the country, individuals are choosing to redefine their lives and the pursuit of happiness in ways much closer to the original notion put forth by our Founding Fathers. Their notion of the "pursuit of happiness" wasn't just about acquiring money and power, but about doing your part to add to the civic happiness of the community.

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

Happiness is not reaching your goal. Happiness is being on the way.

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.

Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

What is happiness? Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself.

Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.

When you see #? happiness in the happiness of others, that's when you will be truly happy.

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.

Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.

The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.

Is it needy? It's not. We don't need each other. We just really, really enjoy each other. And we're good together. We're good people together. And I have the funniest feeling. I can really, truly touch this all, this happiness and the sadness too, I can trace all of it with my fingers. It isn't theoretical or distant. This feels like me. This is me. I love him, and, for the first time in a relationship, I also like me. Every time he says "I love you," I answer, "I believe you.

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

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.

Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.

Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility.

Power doesn't create happiness or unhappiness. It depends how you use it. Wisdom is the guiding force that directs happiness.

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.