Happiness Quotes (4027 Quotes)

He is not troubled by anxiety, the carefree Lord comes to dwell in the mind.

That's huge when everyone is running away from you. It's important to keep your customers happy, ... I think he deserves enormous credit for steadying the ship, for giving the new guy (something) to work with. A rout isn't much fun.

Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and America Don't aim at success the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run in the long-run, I say success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.

Every shot makes someone happy.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

I have been happy, tho' in a dream.

As for himself, the hurricane and flood have eroded any ambitions he had for an early retirement, and he harbors little hope for the city to be rebuilt within two years. I cant wait two or three years for the city to come back, ... Im 48 years old and its freaking me out (having to relocate), but I just love it up here. I tell my mom it may end up being the worst decision I make in my life, but for now Im happy.

Nowadays true job satisfaction and happiness is about fulfilling your full potential, tapping into your own creativity and feeling that you can make a difference,

Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, men were lost arrows. Ghosts sang in the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day we leap around the earth or explore a thousand Milky Ways. And if the cowherd who lives on a star asks about the god of plagues, tell him, happy or sad, the god is gone, washed away in the waters. July 1, 1958

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

If we were to do that, and we are capable of doing it, then I would leave very happy. I would be very disappointed if we don't get that.

I got to play on a team of great guys in a great community. This community kept us going throughout all the bad times. Win, lose or draw we are all happy.

We try to use almost 10 players every game. We like to press and get our offense off the transition defense. So far, we've been successful at that. We've been pushing the ball up the floor. It's been good to us so far. We're 10-1, the kids are playing well. They like it, too, because they all get more time in the game, so it keeps everybody happy.

That was better than getting a big wicket haul. It's been a long time coming and I'm very happy.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

Once again, the boys have done a fantastic job. I am always happy, but today I am more than happy and I am very proud to be part of this team. It is a great day for us and I am looking forward to getting onto dry land here in America.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.

He thought he was pretty special. He was a happy little baby, with a big smile that could command a room even now.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

If our income, grade-point average, or social prestige increases, we feel an initial surge of pleasure. We then adapt to this new level of achievement, come to see it as normal, and require something even better to give us another surge of happiness.

The death of Valentino is a terrific loss to the screen. He brought it happiness, beauty, and art as perhaps no other has. His loss can never be replaced there was and can be only one Valentinoa great artist and one of the finest gentlemen it has ever been my privilege to term friend.' -John Gilbert.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

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

I'm thrilled. I'm glad the prosecutors felt this case was worthy of dismissal. I'm really happy.

The cardinal goal of life should be love, then achievement ensued by a pure and incorruptible happiness.

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve. I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health, that I might do great things. I was given infirmity, that I might do better things. I asked for riches, that I might be happy. I was given poverty, that I might be wise. I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men. I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life. I was given life, that I might enjoy all things.... I got nothing I asked for but everything I hoped for. Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. I am, among men, most richly blessed.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

We've helped the state a lot. When people watch our games, they forget they're living in a trailer instead of their house in New Orleans. It feels great to know we're making people happy.

Always being truthful is a source of happiness. Being honest with our neighbors is a source of happiness.

Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
Is a world of sweets and sours;
Our flowers are merely- flowers,
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
Is the sunshine of ours.

Daddy took it the hardest. It hurt him a lot. We just wanted them to be happy. They were good friends at the end.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.

The founding fathers, said John Ralston Saul, a Canadian political philosopher, defined happiness as a balance of individual and community interests. The Enlightenment theory of happiness was an expression of public good or the public welfare, of the contentment of the people, ... the 20th-century idea that you should smile because you're at Disneyland.

It's all part of growing in this league. Adam has bounced back before. We've got to get a happy medium with him. He's either great or not very good at all. He knows that. We've got to get him to be more consistent.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

From a sensitive womans heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankinds affection.

At the end of the day, the language may be offensive to some people, but the movies are harmless. A lesson is learned, someone grows up a little and there's a good moral. Everyone goes home happy.

In Chicago they're thanking me for a championship here they're thanking me for making them happy. For that reason, I had to bring the World Series trophy to Venezuela,

Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household

I also knew that, although infinitely slower, the only real path to personal health and happiness was through my own slow and painful understanding.

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?