T Quotes
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“The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.”
“The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.”
“The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.”
Source: Summers of the Sisterhood
“The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.”
“The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.”
“The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need on no outward stimulus.”
Source: The Secret of Happiness
“The happiness in our hearts is there for we dare to dream in light when the world tells us to scream in the darkness.”
“The happiness in your life is in direct proportional to the understanding you develop by learning life’s lessons.”
“The happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again.”
Source: The diary of a young girl
“The happiness is a simple algorithm coded by the crowd or by one or two people!”
“The Happiness Manifesto
Pledge not to complain needlessly.
Vow not to anger unecessarily.
Promise not to crititize unreasonably.
Commit to thinking positively.
Aspire to speak intelligently.
Strive to live enlightenedly.
Your happiness is in serenity.
Your contentedness is in charity.
Your righteousness is in integrity.
Your nobility is in humility.
Your innocence is in sincerity.
Your blessedness is in humanity.”
“The happiness of a family is such a complex matter. Like a table laid out with a tea service, it looks so ordinary until it's threatened. Then it becomes infinitely precious.”
Source: Holy war
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions.”
“The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“The happiness of a Nation consists in true Religion, Piety, Justice, Prudence, Temperance, Fortitude, and the contempt of Avarice and Ambition. They in whomsoever these virtues dwell eminently, need not Kings to make them happy, but are the architects of their own happiness; and whether to themselves or others are not less than Kings.”
Source: Eikonoklastes. In answer to a book intitled, Eikon Basilike, the portraiture of his Sacred Majesty in his solitudes and sufferings. A new edition, corrected by the late Reverend Richard Baron.
“The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.”
“The happiness of a young flower is both on a sunny and a rainy day.”
“The happiness of an ignoramus is only temporary and he does not know its source.”
“The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.”
“The happiness of being envied is glamour.
Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.”
“The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.”
“The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.”
Source: The Letter-bag of the Great Western; of Life in a Steamer
“The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence.”
Source: The Secret of Sleep: The Mystery of Man's Relation with God
“The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of the heart's existence is in this calm equable light, even although it be only moonshine or twilight. Now the mind alone can obtain for us this heavenly cheerfulness and peace.”
“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.”
“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.”
“The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention.”
“The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.”
Source: Ben-Hur [Illustrated]
“The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. ‘Behold, just now the world became perfect!’—thus thinks every woman when she obeys out of entire love. And women must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man’s disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.”
“The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.”
Source: Letters, Addressed to His Wife
“The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?”
Source: The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization
“The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.”
“The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.”
Source: What Shall We Do?
“The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.”
“The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.”
“The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.”
“The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.”
“The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.”
“The happiness of society depends so much on preventing party spirit from infecting the common intercourse of life, that nothing should be spared to harmonize and amalgamate the two parties in social circles.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803
“The happiness of society is the end of government.”
“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.”
“The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards
“The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin
“The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.”
“The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.”