Best 10624 quotes in «happiness quotes» category

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

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

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.

A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive.

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who all are happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

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

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

A life without a cause is a life without effect.

A life of both sadness and blissfulness is multi-dimensional; it moves in all dimensions together. Watch the statue of Buddha or sometimes look into my eyes and you will find both together - a blissfulness, a peace, a sadness also.

All achievement should be measured in human happiness.

All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned, and there are people who remain miserable even when they are living in marble palaces. It all depends on you.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. As long as I am my mind, I am those cravings, those needs, wants, attachments, and aversions, and apart from them there is no "I" except as a mere possibility, an unfulfilled potential, a seed that has not yet sprouted.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself.  This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life.  The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.

All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

All happiness is a form of innocence.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.