H Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with H. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Happiness is an undercurrent of sensitivity and leads a surreptitious life: it is an internal eventuality. We can feel it in stillness and it stands the test of time. Joy is an eruption of cheerful moments and we want to express it: it is an external eventuality. We might shout it out, as it conveys a dynamic of fleeting instants. Joy gives voice to “en-joy-ment”. ("The grass was greener over there")”
“Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.”
“Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.”
“Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.”
“Happiness is attractive. Once you decide to be happy, you attract great things into your life.”
“Happiness is available globally in abundance and is affordable to all because it is hidden in tiny little things. Happy feelings constitute a human fuel that is needed for all of us to live a fulfilled life.”
Source: Quantraz
“Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.”
Source: Being Peace
“Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about them, and sharing them with you.”
“Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive”
Source: The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
“Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc”
Source: The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
“Happiness is being at home your own skin and being able to occupy your life.”
Source: Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life
“Happiness is being at peace, being with loved ones, being comfortable...but most of all, it's having those loved ones.”
“Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.”
“Happiness is being married to your best friend.”
“Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life”
Source: Schriften
“Happiness is being served with a paternity suit on your 75th birthday.”
“Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.”
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
“Happiness is best when shared. Wherever you go, make sure to leave a little happiness behind.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.”
Source: Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker
“Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.”
“Happiness is caused by things that happen around me, and circumstances will mar it; but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows through persecution and opposition. It is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring the world can't see and doesn't know anything about.”
Source: Secret Power
“Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.”
“Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.”
“Happiness is composed with short lived shallow feelings whereas sadness is deep with a long life; often happiness dies and resurrects, and sadness just falls dormant when we are happy knowing that we will wake it up sooner than later. Happiness is like a wave, sadness is like innermost depth of an ocean.”
Source: Bayan
“Happiness is contagious.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Happiness is contagious. Be a carrier!!”
“Happiness is day drinking in the middle of Oxford Street whilst dancing to Megan Thee Stallion on a busy weekend after having mixed up all your meds because surprises are fun, and sometimes it's important to be reminded of why you first moved to this weirdly wonderful, obscenely overpriced city. That is happiness and you don't need a therapist or a witchy, wasted transwoman to tell you that shit. Invest in a bombass vibrator, be nice to sweet old ladies on the tube because if you're really lucky, you too will one day grow old and you'll want someone to treat you with a modicum of kindness and care. And stop making yourself go grey with needless stress! Now get the fuck out of my house. You're starting to harsh my buzz.”
“Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance”
“Happiness is dependent on our circumstances; Joy is dependent on our relationship.”
“Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.”
“Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.”
“Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.”
Source: The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living
“Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.”
“Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.”
“Happiness is divine-state of satisfaction.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Happiness is dog-shaped, I say.”
Source: My Life as a Real Dog
“Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.”
Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir
“Happiness is doubled when you share them together and sadness is halved when you share them together.”
“Happiness is egotistical.”
Source: The Three Musketeers: World Classics
“Happiness is elusive and protean. And it is sterile when devoid of meaning. But meaning, when it is set in the vast arena of war with its high stakes, it’s adrenaline-driven rushes, it’s bold sweeps and drama, is heartless and self-destructive. The initial selflessness of war mirrors that of love, the chief emotion war destroys. And this is what war often looks and feels like, at it’s inception: love.”
Source: War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
“Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.”
Source: The Adventurer
“Happiness Is Enjoying Yourself
Enjoying Yourself Is Happiness”
“Happiness is equal to one's capacity to love.”
“Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.”
“Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.”
Source: The Real Thing
“Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.”
“Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.”
“Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation.”
Source: Psychology and the Promethean Will: A Constructive Study of the Acute Common Problem of Education, Medicine and Religion