Happiness - Quotes
Love is when the other person`s happiness is more important than your own.
I believe that happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.
You couldn`t hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that`d make the world, in a small way, a better place.
The [...] tragedy of happiness: people adapt to their circumstances, good or bad, the way their eyes adapt to sun or darkness.
Love, true love, is always fatal. What I mean is, it does not aim at happiness, at an idyll, at a hand-in-hand eternity of sentimental walks under flowering lime trees, with a gentle light burning on the veranda behind, the house swimming in cool scents. Life can be that, but not love. Love burns with a fierce, more dangerous flame. One day you discover a desire in yourself to encounter this all-consuming passion.
Behind every kiss looms the secret desire for annihilation, for an ultimate happiness that is no longer in the mood for argument but knows that to be happy is to cease entirely and surrender to feeling.
Everything about human experience suggests that love is more conducive to happiness than hate is.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worth purpose.