Happiness
Quotes - Let us dance in the Sun
“My
God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?”
―
Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
“A
thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
―
John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance
“Let
us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...”
―
susan polis schutz
“The
pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”
―
C.S. Lewis
“Ah,
what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press
cheeks, smile into eyes.”
―
Katherine Mansfield
“The
sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In
misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of
a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces
belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our
identity.”
―
Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
“It
is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but
the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which
have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the
real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a
conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and
the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy
haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for
themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies,
lies; and each discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of
life.”
― W.
Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
“The
greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not
upon our circumstances.”
―
Martha Washington
“That's
the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good
enough for me! I demand euphoria!”
―
Bill Watterson, Weirdos From Another Planet: Calvin & Hobbes Series: Book
Six
“Happiness
consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
―
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Don’t
sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing
else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
―
Karl Lagerfeld
“What
can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may
never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with
lace and silk, and press it over myself again.”
―
Anais Nin, Henry & June
“If
you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a
question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget
there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and
tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag.
Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular
songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram
them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they
feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel
they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be
happy, because facts of that sort don't change.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“Everyone
wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs
while you're climbing it.”
―
Andy Rooney
“And
therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle;
it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is
the longing for repetition.”
―
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“I
heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd
invented it, because it is very true.”
―
Audrey Hepburn
“It
takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God
people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have
nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without
a central loyalty life is unfinished.”
―
Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
“The
only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.”
―
Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful
“This
life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.
Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the
power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control
your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life
happy.”
―
Susan Polis Schutz
“I
am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a
butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn
your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
― J.
Richard Lessor
