Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. "

Saint Augustine

Related Quotes:

" The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. "

" The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. "

Robert Baden-Powell

" I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted. "

Kaui Hart Hemmings

" False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. "

Charles de Montesquieu

" Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect. "

" Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. "

Bernard Meltzer

" For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom. "

Sushant Singh Rajput

" Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. "

Bertrand Russell

" Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same. "

" Good clothing is a passport to happiness. "

Yves Saint Laurent

" The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life. "

" Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.' "

" Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. "

" But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. "

William Shakespeare

" Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life. "

" Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? "

Chuck Palahniuk

" The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. "

" Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and that only He knows the way. That is the testimony we must have to keep praying like a submissive child, in the good times as well as the times of trouble. "

Henry B. Eyring

" Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

" People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy. "

Gary Vaynerchuk

" Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. "

Saint Augustine

" In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so. "

Clayton M. Christensen

" God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. "

Saint Augustine

" All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness. "

H. P. Lovecraft

" Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. "

" Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. "

Saint Augustine

" Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that. "

" Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. "

" Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. "

Saint Augustine

" Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam