Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: happiness

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Everybody knows when you're a struggling family; you don't really know it when you're a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there's, like, this happiness.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

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

I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

I'll never forget the blooming happiness that spread in me like the sun coming up when Lydia's obstetrician poked me awake: 'Congratulations... you have a fine son.'

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Happiness is only real when shared.

Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

How could anybody possibly have a problem with two people falling in love and finding happiness together?

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.

Could we not argue that America is about freedom, whether we live it out or not, but it really is about freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness. And that's what church is all about.

Honestly, just live your life to the fullest. Laugh a lot, love and find your true happiness.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.