Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: happiness

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

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.

Everything has an opportunity cost, and the big things we want in life - like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth - they all have big opportunity costs.

Happiness is not something you achieve. It's not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

Happiness, the feeling of positivity, really is the foundation of productivity.

Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.

God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the army! I have for long been convinced that, to safeguard the country and give happiness to the people, it is necessary first of all to prove once more to the world that our army is still the old Turkish army.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

What I think about is my happiness, together with my family. I want us to be happy.

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

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.

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

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.