Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: happiness

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

The will of man is his happiness.

There's happiness in having less.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

When your primary function is to be happy, then whatever comes to you is irrelevant. Happiness is your true manifestation.

Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Although I never married, my brother fortunately did, and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family, although often separated by distance, and have shared each other's happiness, sorrows, and aspirations.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

It is difficult to express in words the feelings of happiness and pride which fill me.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.