Happiness

"Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God wills it."

"Sive ad felices vadam post funera campos, Seu ferar ardentem rapidi Phlegethontis ad undam, Nec sine te felix ero, nec tecum miser unquam."

"Neminem, dum adhuc viveret, beatum dici debere arbitrabatur."

"And feel that I am happier than I know."

"No eye to watch and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us."

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet."

"Dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet."

"Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so."

"Said Scopas of Thessaly, "But we rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.""

"Le bonheur des méchants comme un torrent s'écoule."

"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

"Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it, and by no means in the way the future keeps its promises."

"Des Menschen Wille, das ist sein Glück."

"O mother, mother, what is bliss? O mother, what is bale? Without my William what were heaven, Or with him what were hell?"

"Non potest quisquam beate degere, qui se tantum intuetur, qui omnia ad utilitates suas convertit; alteri vivas oportet, si vis tibi vivere."

"Ye seek for happiness—alas, the day! Ye find it not in luxury nor in gold, Nor in the fame, nor in the envied sway For which, O willing slaves to Custom old, Severe taskmistress! ye your hearts have sold."

"Magnificent spectacle of human happiness."

"Mankind are always happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it."

"Be happy, but be happy through piety."

"Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I ask, the heavens above, And the road below me."

"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."

"For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart; And makes his pulses fly, To catch the thrill of a happy voice, And the light of a pleasant eye."

"True happiness is to no spot confined. If you preserve a firm and constant mind, 'Tis here, 'tis everywhere."

"We're charm'd with distant views of happiness, But near approaches make the prospect less."

"The sacrifices required in the Christian life are necessary to emancipate the soul, and raise it above its servile dependence on condition. They are losses of mere happiness, and for just that reason they are preparations of joy."

"Happiness is not the end of duty, it is a constituent of it. It is in it and of it; not an equivalent, but an element."

"It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness — temporal, spiritual, and eternal — consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases."

"There is something better for us in the world than happiness. We will take happiness as the incident of this, gladly and gratefully. We will add a thousand fold to the happiness of the present in the fearlessness of the future which it brings; but we will not place happiness first, and thus cloud our heads with doubts, and fill our hearts with discontent. In the blackest soils 'grow the richest flowers, and the loftiest and strongest trees spring heavenward among the rocks."

"When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself — nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations."

"In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors."

"Happiness is neither within us nor without us, it is the union of ourselves with God."

"The soul's calm sunshine."

"Happiness is not perfected until it is shared."

"Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master."

"So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man."

"Beware what earth calls happiness; beware All joys, but joys that never can expire."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Happiness is hope and humans naturally search for happiness in order to live every day with new hope new work and a new idea to live your life without trouble problems or psychological fatigue."

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

"For evy minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness"

"Ralph Waldo Emerson."