Browsing Quotes With Tag: happiness (57)
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You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives the roses.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Happiness is not mostly pleasure; it is mostly victory.
Speaker: Harry Emerson FosdickPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.Speaker: John MiltonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A certain comfortable security, a certain profound inner peace, a kind of happy numbness, soothes the nerves of the human animal when absorbed in his allotted task.
Speaker: John Cowper PowysPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within can say:
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv’d today.Speaker: HoracePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.
Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.
So, to feel brave, act as if we were brave. Use all of our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just like I think that a lot of other people have read those books before. And listened to those songs.
I wonder how they feel tonight.
…I guess what I’m saying is that this all feels very familiar. But it’s not mine to be familiar about. I just know that another kid has felt this. This one time when it’s peaceful outside, and you’re seeing things move, and you don’t want to, and everyone is asleep. And all the books you’ve read have been read by other people. And all the songs you’ve loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that’s pretty to you is pretty to other people. And you know that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing “unity.”
It’s like when you are excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to always feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means that you’re happy too.Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“I would not hesitate to say that those who pass for thinkers on this earth, for men of subtle reasoning, are guilty of being the greatest fools. For no one in this life of ours knows happiness.” Messenger
Speaker: EurpiidesPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 12:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“The discipline,” repeated Jubal. “That’s what I like. The faith I was reared in didn’t require anybody to know anything. Just confess and be saved, and there you were, safe in the arms of Jesus. A man might be too stupid to count sheep… yet conclusively presumed to be one of God’s elect, guaranteed an eternity of bliss, because he had been 'converted.’ he might not even be a Bible student and certainly didn’t have to know anything else. This church doesn’t accept 'conversion’ as I grok it-”
“You grok correctly.”
“A person must start with a willingness to learn and follow it with long, hard study. I grok that is salutary.”
“More than salutary,” agreed Sam. “Indispensable. The concepts can’t be thought about without the language, and the discipline that results in this horn-of-plenty of benefits – from how to live without fighting to how to please your wife – all derive from conceptual logic… understanding who you are, why you’re here, how you tick – and behaving accordingly. Happiness is functioning the way a being is organized to function.”Speaker: Robert HeinleinPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 12:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you’re unhappy, I guess everything in the world – reading, eating, sleeping – has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don’t care what anyone says.
Speaker: Elizabeth McCrackenPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Then learn that mortal man must always look to his ending,
and none can be called happy until that day when he carries
His happiness down to the grave in peace.” ChorusSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Show me the man whose happiness was anything more than illusion
Followed by disillusion.” ChorusSpeaker: SophoclesPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!