All Quotes By Tag: Happiness

“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.”

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

“I’m happy. Which often looks like crazy.”

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”

“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”

“It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”

“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”