Quotes About Happiness

Like so much else, people have also misunderstood the place of love in life, they have made it into play and pleasure because they thought that play and pleasure were more blissful than work; but there is nothing happier than work, and love, just because it is the extreme happiness, can be nothing else but work.

If there is nothing in common between you and other people, try being close to things, they will not desert you; there are the nights still and the winds that go through the trees and across many lands; among things and with the animals everything is still happening, in which you may participate; and children are still the way you were as a child, sad like that and happy.

I am so glad you are here. It makes me realize how beautiful my world is.

Be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind.

Kad?n?n teslimiyeti, hudutsuz olmak gayesini güder : onun saadetidir bu. Ama kad?n?n aÅŸk?ndaki sonsuz ?st?rap hep ÅŸu olmuÅŸtur : kendisinden bu teslimiyeti azaltmas? istenir.

I basically do not believe that it matters to be happy in the sense in which people expect to be happy. But I can so absolutely understand the kind of arduous happiness that consists in rousing forces through a determined effort, forces that then start to work upon one's self.

Çünkü mutludur, kendilerinden uzaklaÅŸmam?? olanlar sessizce, çat?s?z, yaÄŸmurun alt?nda duranlar

When we meet others, we should not think of ourselves as superior and look down on them or pity them, but see them as the source of our happiness.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

The sun shines today also.

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.

To fill the hour,—that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

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

The world laughs in flowers.

The earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson