Quotes on Happiness

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.

‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.

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

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.