Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: happiness

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

Just staying healthy, that is true wealth and true happiness.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

'Happiness' is a pointless goal.

If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem.

God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Joys divided are increased.

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Ironically, the pursuit of happiness can lead us into the eternal trap of chasing unhappiness.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Happiness is perhaps painlessness, a state one rarely appreciates. Happiness, then, is very much like a great talent. It rarely gets appreciated and is taken for granted.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

I can't buy the happiness I see on people's faces when I give them a fifty dollar bill.

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions.

I was always worried about things but I focused on finding happiness.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

I always find the worst lies are told in relationships - I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone's feelings from being hurt.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

I am living my dream because I get to work with my kids and watch them find their happiness. It's so rewarding - we brainstorm around a conference table and have a really great time doing it.

I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.