Top 1200 Simple Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.

I think one of the things we have in this modern, individualistic age is a recognition that happiness can look very different for very different people. Happiness is not necessarily about how much money you make, happiness isn't necessarily about these aspects of your life.

Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the line that marks the movement of the whole. Don't have more than one movement in a figure; you can't patch parts together. Simple lines; then simple values. Establish the fact of the whole. Is it square, oblong, cube, or what is it?

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't

Simple questions--and simple answers--were what we needed in life. That was what Mma Ramotswe believed. Yes.

The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

Put your attention on happiness by practicing the Happiness Habits each day.

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

Success lies in a masterful consistency around a few fundamentals. It really is simple. Not easy. But simple.

So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Happiness in marriage and parenthood can exceed a thousand times any other happiness

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

I let Brel into my world. What I like about him is the simplicity of his language. It's not so simple to be simple.

Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

Let me tell you something: I'm a simple person who lives a simple life.

The whole movement of happiness, unhappiness, happiness, unhappiness, could be called unhappiness. You're suffering because your state of mind is in flux, moving back and forth. The ego's happiness is really a form of suffering, because it cannot live without unhappiness.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

I'm a simple man with very simple tastes and low standards.

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.

Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently

More than my own happiness, it's my mother's happiness that makes me happy.

There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

I am a simple person; I come from a very simple home. We believe in enjoying life and what we have.

How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses.

Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

I'm a simple girl. I just like the simple things in life.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

A feeling that greater possessions, no matter of what kind they may be, will of themselves bring contentment or happiness, is a misunderstanding. No person, place, or thing can give you happiness. They may give you cause for happiness and a feeling of contentment, but the JOY of Living comes from within.

I think the simple message of that song is what attracted me to 'Every Day.' It's one of those simple yet profound lyrics.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

Love is so simple. [Fr., C'est tellement simple, l'amour.]

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.