Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: happiness

I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

Money's a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn't have - nice things - but happiness? That's a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

I am possessive and protective of my babies. Their happiness means more to me than anything else on this world. I love them more than I would ever have thought was possible.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

I'm not a showoff. My happiness comes from very basic and simple things.

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

I don't believe in organised happiness.

Parties are organised happiness but happiness is accidental. You can't legislate for it.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.