Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: happiness

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

A good education is another name for happiness.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.

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

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

'Sunrise Sunset' is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness.

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.

What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

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

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

I think happiness really happens when you least expect it: it's when you're not really thinking about it, when you're not trying to achieve it, when you're not trying to get the perfect holiday, the perfect life, the perfect body, the perfect existence.

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.