Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: happiness

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Happiness is an inside job.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

Good clothing is a passport to happiness.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

Happiness needs one-upmanship.