H Quotes
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“Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.”
Source: Centuries of Meditations
“Happiness was not the only virtue. After all, loneliness wrote great symphonies and could paint masterpieces. It was the imperfections and miseries that necessitated the magic.”
Source: The Measure of Gold
“Happiness was still on the other side of a glass door, but at least she could see it through the glass, like a prisoner being visited by a longed-for loved one.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“Happiness was the responsibility you dreaded, it required the kind of rational discipline you did not value yourself enough to assume - and the anxious staleness of your days is the monument to your evasion of the knowledge that there is no moral substitute for happiness, that there is no more despicable coward than the man who deserted the battle for his joy, fearing to assert his right to existence, lacking the courage and the loyalty to life of a bird or a flower reaching for the sun. Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility - learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness - and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?”
Source: Revolution
“Happiness was waiting to be chosen.”
Source: Peony
“Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies.”
Source: Dreams of Gods & Monsters
“Happiness. What's that? I don't know. How can one be happy when one loves a demon?”
Source: The Message To The Planet
“Happiness when sustained too long in print can rightly be construed as sappiness.”
“Happiness will always shine through.”
“Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.”
“Happiness will bloom
With fragrance and beauty
If you plant the seeds of love
With a deep driving desire
in the garden of hope
And nurture with tenderness,
Compassion, and care;
If you are always eager to share.”
“Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.”
“Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of this lifetime. It will stay with you.”
“Happiness will come to you when it comes from you. Others can only bring temporary happiness and not everyone understands you.”
“Happiness will come
Today, tomorrow and every year
Now, then and every moment
For if, we learn to love, care and share.
Happiness will come
To fill our heart with kindness
It is a gift from the universe
To touch our life with joyful silence.
Happiness will come
For if we know, wealth and splendors are illusion
But attainment of certain mental state,
And Unconditional love is a real possession.”
“Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.”
“Happiness will grow if you plant the seeds of love in the garden of hope with compassion and care.”
“Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.”
“Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.”
Source: The Power of Positive Living
“Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.”
“Happiness will seek for you only when you cease running away from the things that you call evil.”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“Happiness will teach you to live your life and pain will tell you the way.”
“Happiness wishes everybody happy.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.”
Source: We
“Happiness without work is a grave snare to the soul.”
“Happiness worth having is the warm glow that comes from investing ourselves in the world around us, come what may. It cannot be passively consumed or gulped down like a sugary drink. Happiness must be created by own ingenuity.”
“Happiness you’re it’s creator just imagine it in every small detail in your life even amongst the ruins”
“Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?”
“Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.”
“Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“Happiness, at my age, is breathing”
“Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.”
“Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.”
“Happiness, for me, is a function of the number of people I love, and I think joy and happiness is directly related to how many people are in our lives and how deeply we are bonded with those people. And so I'm happy if I'm with Ann; I'm happier if I'm also with my family and my grandchildren.”
“Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.”
“Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.”
“Happiness, however, is not the result of any one single cause. It is the result of many ideal states of being grouped together into one harmonious whole.”
Source: The Ideal Made Real: Or Applied Metaphysics for Beginners
“Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.”
“Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again.”
Source: Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey
“Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.”
“Happiness, I think, lies on the surface... when one plunges under the surface all the buoyant things disappear, and the farther down one gets the more cold and dark it seems: and the more oppressive space feels.”
Source: My works and days: a personal chronicle
“Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.”
“Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.”
“Happiness, it has been observed, is best achieved by those who have been most unhappy heretofore.”
“Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second -- and best -- in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night's sleep and not being hurt by new shoes.”
“Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.”
“Happiness, laughter and joy abound, when friends, family, and lovers are around.”
“Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.”
Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].
“Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog”
Source: Mencken Chrestomathy