Top 1200 Happiness And Sadness Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

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

We tend to Seek Happiness when Happiness is actually a Choice

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

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

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

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

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

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

Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it about and, in particular, from the real situation. Man has to be affected with happiness. It is a tonality given to him. Contradiction: if one does take care to give him happiness, it is because he is a free creature--but in order to give it to him, one turns him into an object.

Food became the antidote for feelings of guilt, sadness, and anger. ... Food is a resolution to controversy; food is rescue. We ate and talked and cried and laughed in the kitchen and ate again. This was about more than just food. It was about our mom making connections the best she could and in the way she knew best across the kitchen table, across time and across sadness.

Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

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

you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!

Being a joyful vegan is the best way I know to contribute to the happiness of others, ultimately ensuring our own happiness.

All moments of joy include an element of happiness. But not all moments of happiness include joy. Happiness often comes from drive reduction-avoidance of pain or the pursuit of pleasure for pleasure's sake. The essence of joy, on the other hand, is spirit.

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

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

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

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.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

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

Gratitude is pure happiness. Happiness is sure perfection.

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

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.

when your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love

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

No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.

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

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

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

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

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.

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

It's very easy to look for happiness outside ourselves; in a relationship, a dream job, or the perfect body weight. When we chase happiness externally, we're simply looking for God in all the wrong places. The outside search is based on false projections we place on the world. These projections build up a wall against true happiness, which lies within us.

As a man, if you're married, your happiness is with her happiness. If she's unhappy, everything's messed up. It's a woman's world for sure.

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.

... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

No happiness gives happiness until you share it with someone.

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more.

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

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

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.

What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before joy, anger, sadness and happiness are expressed, they are called the inner self; when they are expressed to the proper degree, they are called harmony. The inner self is the correct foundation of the world, and the harmony is the illustrious Way. When a man has achieved the inner self and harmony, the heaven and earth are orderly and the myriad of things are nourished and grow thereby.