Quotes and sayings about tag  happiness

370 Quotes

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama XIV

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Bill Watterson

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Dalai Lama XIV

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

Cormac McCarthy

Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

Cornelia Funke

There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.

David Benioff

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

David Henry Hwang

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.

Daisaku Ikeda

it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

Daisaku Ikeda

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

Doris Mortman

Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

Daisaku Ikeda

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Douglas Adams

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

Daisaku Ikeda

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

E.L. Konigsburg

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