Quotes about happiness and love Biography
source link (google.com.pk)Happiness is a state of mind that cannot be put in words but has to be experienced. Life can be made full of joy and happiness if it is understood the right way. As sorrow becomes halved when shared with others, happiness becomes doubled when you share it with your loved ones. Happiness cannot be curtailed or confined to one single concept.
There are various things that cause happiness depending upon the mentality of the person. If millions of dollars can cause happiness to a reason, the beautiful bloom of rose or the smile of a small baby can bring unbound happiness to another. The following quotes give an idea of the vast diversity of things in life that are responsible for bringing happiness. But in a nutshell, happiness can be brought about by change of mind or attitude or alteration in the perspective but it is one thing in life that cannot be bought by money.We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.”
- Samuel Johnson, Selected Writings
April 4th, 2014
“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
- Samuel Johnson, Selected Writings
April 3rd, 2014
“No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.”
- Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant
April 2nd 2014
“Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a monk’s life, because you cannot begin to do anything unless you have some idea what you are trying to do.”
- Thomas Merton
April 1st, 2014
“If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.”
- La Rochefoucauld, Collected Maxims and Other Reflections
March 31st, 2014
“You increase your self-respect when you feel you’ve done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.”
- Eugene Delacroix
March 28th, 2014
“The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading, and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires.”
- Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
March 27th, 2014
“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”
- Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness
March 26th, 2014
“But if a man has commonly a very clear and happy daily life then I think we are justified in asking that he shall not make mountains out of molehills. I do not deny that molehills can sometimes be important. Small annoyances have this evil about them, that they can be more abrupt because they are more invisible; they cast no shadow before, they have no atmosphere….But when all this is allowed for, I repeat that we may ask a happy man…to put up with pure inconveniences, and even make them part of his happiness. Of positive pain or positive poverty I do not speak here speak. I speak of those innumerable accidental limitations that are always falling across our path – bad weather, confinement to this or that house or room, failure of appointments or arrangements…”
- G.K. Chesterton, The Advantages of Having One Leg
March 25th, 2014
“I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose.”
- Simone Weil, Waiting For God
March 24th, 2014
“Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it’s different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa.”
- Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
March 21st, 2014
“Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.”
- Samuel Johnson, Selected Writings
March 20th, 2014
“It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.”
- M.F.K. Fisher, How to Cook a Wolf
March 19th, 2014
“When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
March 18th, 2014
“When one loves, one does not calculate.”
- St. Therese of Lisieux
March 17th, 2014
“The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.”
- La Rochefoucauld
March 14th, 2014
“One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.”
- Iris Murdoch
March 13th, 2014
“The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.”
- G.K. Chesterton
March 12th, 2014
“If better were within, better would come out.”
- Simon Patrick
March 11th, 2014
“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
- Joseph Addison
March 10th, 2014
“It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
March 7th, 2014
“She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
March 6th, 2014
“Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.”
- Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness
March 5th, 2014
“The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.”
- G.K. Chesterton, “On Pleasure-Seeking”
March 4th, 2014
“I don’t know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don’t identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.”
- Giacometti, in Giacometti: A Biography by James Lord
March 3rd, 2014
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
- Leo Tolstoy
February 28th, 2014
“You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.”
- Andy Warhol
February 27th, 2014
“The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.”
- Henry David Thoreau
February 26th, 2014
“To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.”
- Oscar Wilde
February 25th, 2014
“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good…Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.”
- C.S. Lewis
February 24th, 2014
“To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise…Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.”
- Samuel Johnson
February 21st, 2014
“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
February 20th, 2014
“Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.”
- Leo Tolstoy
February 19th, 2014
“It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
February 18th, 2014
“Optimism is true moral courage.”
- Ernest Shackleton
February 17th, 2014
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”
- Willa Cather
February 14th, 2014
“Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.”
- Michel de Montaigne, Essays of Montaigne, Upon Some Verses of Virgil
February 13th, 2014
“No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.”
- Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant
February 12th, 2014
“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”
- Samuel Johnson, Selected Writings
February 11th, 2014
“Children think not of what is past, nor what is to come, but enjoy the present time, which few of us do.”
- Jean de La Bruyère
February 10th, 2014
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
- Bertrand Russell
February 7th, 2014
“I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of everybody.”
- Benjamin Franklin
February 6th, 2014
“To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.”
- Winston Churchill
February 5th, 2014
“Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.”
- Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
February 4th, 2014
“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”
- William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
February 3rd, 2014
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”
- Willa Cather
January 31st, 2014
“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the dominance of the outward conditions.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
January 30th, 2014
“The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
- William Morris
January 29th, 2014
“Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.”
- Marcus Aurelius
January 28th, 2014
“Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.”
- Robert Southey
January 27th, 2014
“My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.”
- Virginia Woolf
January 24th, 2014
“Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a monk’s life, because you cannot begin to do anything unless you have some idea what you are trying to do.”
- Thomas Merton
January 23rd, 2014
“Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.”
- Samuel Johnson
January 22nd, 2014
“We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.”
- Benjamin Franklin
January 21st, 2014
“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”
- Samuel Butler
January 20th, 2014
“Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.”
- Flannery O’Connor
January 17th, 2014
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
January 16th, 2014
“To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.”
- Oscar Wilde
January 15th, 2014
“Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.”
- Marcus Aurelius
January 14th, 2014
“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
January 13th, 2014
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
January 10th, 2014
“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good…Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.”
- C.S. Lewis
January 9th, 2014
“Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.”
- Benjamin Franklin
January 8th, 2014
“My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been before.”
- Diane Arbus
January 7th, 2014
“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”
- Willa Cather
January 6th, 2014
“Enough is abundance to the wise.”
- Euripide
January 3rd, 2014
“Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.”
- Twyla Tharp
January 2nd, 2014
“Love is patient, love is kind, It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-5
January 1st, 2014
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
December 31st, 2013
“The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.”
- Samuel Butler
December 30th, 2013
“What is one’s personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.”
- Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance
December 27th, 2013
“There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.”
- Mary McCarthy
December 26th, 2013
“Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.”
- Sarah Bernhardt
December 25th, 2013
“The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.”
- Bertrand Russell
December 24th, 2013
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
- George Moore
December 23rd, 2013
“We needs must love the highest when we see it.”
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
December 20th, 2013
“The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.”
- Arnold Bennett
December 19th, 2013
“Do not hunt for subjects, let them choose you, not you them. Only do that which insists on being done and runs right up against you, hitting you in the eye until you do it.”
- Samuel Butler
December 18th, 2013
“But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.”
- George Orwell
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