The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius quotes It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses. Sarah Orne Jewett quotes It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. Hugo Black quotes Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. Ausonius quotes It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. Robert Herrick quotes Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! William Hazlitt quotes The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. William Ellery Channing quotes Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. William Cowper quotes I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt quotes Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. Wayne Gretzky quotes |