“Happiness is something that you can definitely achieve. At first, it will just come for a moment or two. Then it will come for longer periods of time. Eventually you will be happy all of the time.” FirstsTwoMomentsHappinessAchieveBuddhismPeriods Author:Frederick Lenz
“Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.” EarthHappinessSpiritPeriodsDiscoveryRootsPlantEnjoyedSubstitutesAdmirable Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
“The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.” WorldHappinessPeriodsPagesHarmonyTheatreBlankWorld HistoryAntithesisBlank Pages Book:The Philosophy of History Source: The Philosophy of History
“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.” HappinessPeriodsHappyInner PeaceUnhappinessIntervals Author:Don Marquis
“Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.” HappinessLiteratureFriendshipFriendsPeriodsFutureAffairOur FutureAssuredHappy InspirationalProspering Author:Ambrose Bierce
“And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.” WantedRememberHappinessSkyBuildingPeriodsSadTallAfternoonRidingTaxiRosyHappy AgainTall Buildings Book:Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940 Source: Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940
“Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.” IfsMenInspirationalMayLongInspirationAgePastHappinessSpiritualOpportunityPleasureGonePeriodsAdvantageWineLaysHappyAnticipationFinding HappinessNot HappyTastingPresent TimeAlways HappyJust Be HappyKey To HappinessAlways Be HappyYou Make Me HappyOthers HappinessFound HappinessLive HappyHe Makes Me HappyMy Own HappinessLife Changing ExperiencePast Happiness Author:Charles Caleb Colton