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Quotes About Happiness (1)Quotes about Happiness Quotes about Happiness (A) "An endurance test for some people is the pursuit of happiness." "Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool." "Happiness is acceptance." "He alone is the happy man who has learned to extract happiness not from ideal conditions but from actual ones about him." "Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it." "Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Quotes about Happiness (B) "The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does." 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. Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. Beauty is the promise of happiness. I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness. Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that! "The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring." "There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness." Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle. Quotes about Happiness (C) Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. "I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness."
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"That creative principle, before it touches mind, is complete innocence, and so there is no vigilance. It is empty, and so there is the fullness of Love. It is freedom itself, life itself, and so there is no need to seek or to avoid. Absent the knowledge of virtue, it is virtue itself. It is possible to rediscover this essential principle and abandon all else."
Phil Beaumont