Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: happiness

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

I think if you're a good person and spread happiness, good things will come to you!

Growing up, my dad was 'get a real job, don't go pursuing your dreams, that's how you become homeless.' So, do I pick my family or do I pick my own happiness, and how much does my own happiness depend on my family?

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.

All the riches in the world do not come close to the happiness of having children and being a mother.

You can be happy where you are.

This is our country and our home and our families. We can decide that one person's right to bear arms does not come at the expense of a neighbor's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.

The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you're going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you're going to get better at being happy.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Happiness is the target one only has to aim at in order to miss.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.