Top 1200 Road To Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.

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

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

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

I write well on the road. I have the energy, I have the motivation to write. I'm happy when I'm on the road.

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

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

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

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

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

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

No happiness gives happiness until you share it with someone.

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.

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

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.

The chicken did not cross the road. The road passed beneath the chicken.

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud, solid, reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

Because this is our life. We met on the road; we grew to know and to love each other on the road. It's where we were meant to be for however long, and it's what we're going to do until it becomes clear that we're meant to do something else.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

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

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

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

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

We tend to Seek Happiness when Happiness is actually a Choice

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

you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!

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

Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building a road - you're building the future development of your city. And, that's what's never dawned on people. It still doesn't, in a way.

The only negative about doing stand-up is that you're on the road by yourself. When you're on the road with comics we just crack each other up every night going, "Can you believe they're paying us to do this? They're crazy.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

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

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

Gratitude is pure happiness. Happiness is sure perfection.

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.

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