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.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add Let no one till his death be called unhappy.
Man if he compare himself with all that he can see is at the zenith of power; But if he compare himself with all that he can conceive he is at the nadir of weakness.
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.
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food but not appetite; medicine but not health; acquaintance but not friends; servants but not loyalty; days of joy but not peace or happiness.
There are two times in every mans life when he is thoroughly happy; just after he has met his first love and just after he has parted from his last one.
False happiness renders men stern and proud And that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible And that happiness is always shared.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something learns it and finds himself no wiser than before Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
I dont know what your destiny will be but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes and like people in the dark fall foul of the very thing we search for without finding it. Tranquility is a certain quality of mind which no condition of fortune can either exalt or depress.
Happiness is a man?s greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.
Some people cause happiness wherever they go. Some people cause happiness whenever they go.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have but on what we are.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel not a destination.
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
There are some days when I think Im going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Happiness isnt something you experience; its something you remember.
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.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add Let no one till his death be called unhappy.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest But the happiest are usually the best.
All who would win joy must share it; happiness was born a twin.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Man if he compare himself with all that he can see is at the zenith of power; But if he compare himself with all that he can conceive he is at the nadir of weakness.
Happiness depends as Nature shows Less on exterior things than most suppose.
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.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
To be stupid selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness though if stupidity is lacking all is lost.
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.
You know I know you know I know you know.
And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid.
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food but not appetite; medicine but not health; acquaintance but not friends; servants but not loyalty; days of joy but not peace or happiness.
Happiness is not a reward it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment it is a result.
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
The world in its best state is nothing more than a larger assembly of beings combining to counterfeit happiness which they do not feel.
In the misfortune of our best friends we find something which is not displeasing to us.
Manifest plainness Embrace simplicity Reduce selfishness Have few desires.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
There are two times in every mans life when he is thoroughly happy; just after he has met his first love and just after he has parted from his last one.
False happiness renders men stern and proud And that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible And that happiness is always shared.
Nobody really cares if youre miserable so you might as well be happy.
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
Happiness is not having what you want but wanting what you have.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something learns it and finds himself no wiser than before Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
I dont know what your destiny will be but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes and like people in the dark fall foul of the very thing we search for without finding it. Tranquility is a certain quality of mind which no condition of fortune can either exalt or depress.
Why then the world?s mine oyster Which I with sword will open.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
The world is so full of a number of things; I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.
To know that we know what we know And that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge.
If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time.
Happiness is no laughing matter.
Happiness is a man?s greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.