T Quotes
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“The happiness of the world is transitory. The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind.”
Source: The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi
“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.”
“The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.”
Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
“The happiness of worldly life lies in normality. When there is neither scarcity nor surplus, that is known as happiness.”
Source: Brahmacharya : Celibacy
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
Source: The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
Source: The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself. Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker
“The happiness of your life is in direct proportion to the understanding you have acquired by learning life’s lessons.”
“The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!”
“The happiness state, when examined more closely, turns out not to be a point but a range, with contentment at the bottom and exaltation at the top...there are probably as many forms of happiness as there are of depression.”
“The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“The happiness that is derived from some secondary source is never very deep. It is only a pale reflection of the joy of Being, the vibrant peace that you find within as you enter the state of nonresistance. Being takes you beyond the polar opposites of the mind and frees you from dependency on form. Even if everything were to collapse and crumble all around you, you would still feel a deep inner core of peace. You may not be happy, but you will be at peace.”
Source: The Power of Now A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, The Art of Happiness 10th Anniversary Edition, You Are a Badass, Life Leverage 4 Books Collection Set
“The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.”
Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life
“The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and most bitter environment.”
Source: The Secret of Happiness
“The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.”
Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works
“The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.”
Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works
“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”
“The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.”
“The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.”
“The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.”
Source: What I Know For Sure
“The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist.”
Source: God's Revolution: World Youth Day and Other Cologne Talks
“The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.”
Source: Democracy in America
“The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.”
“The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.”
“The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.”
Source: The Waverley novels. 25 vols.
“The happy consciousness is shaky enough a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.”
Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“The happy do not believe in miracles.”
“The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.”
“The happy ending is our national belief.”
“The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross.”
Source: Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God
“The happy family is a myth for many.”
“The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.”
Source: The double gallant; Ximena; the comical lovers; The non-juror
“The happy have whole days.”
Source: The double gallant; Ximena; the comical lovers; The non-juror
“The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.”
“The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.”
Source: Time and the Art of Living
“The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.”
“The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.”
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“The happy man does not notice the flight of time.”
“The happy man in this life needs friends.”
“The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.”
Source: Ballads of a Bohemian
“The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.”
“The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything and everyone; everything is "in him"; nothing can happen to him. The same may also be said for the contemplative person; he needs himself alone; he lacks nothing.”
“The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.”
“The happy man's without a shirt.”
“The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.”
Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17
“The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all — he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.”