I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
– Gilbert Keith Chesterton
I'll say it again, for every moment you're with the wrong person, you are robbing yourself and the right person of the opportunity to find real happiness.
– Ingrid Weir
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
– Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
– Bertrand Russell
If an illusion makes a man happy, destroy that illusion! Because happiness must come via the truth!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
– Author Unknown
If happiness truly consisted of physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
– William Lyon Phelps
If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.
– Kitaro Nishida
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source.
– The Dhammapada
If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.
– Metastasio
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
– A. Edward Newton
If thou desirest ease in this life, keep thy secrets undisclosed, like the modest rosebud. Take warning from that lovely flower, which, by expanding its hitherto hidden beauties when in full bloom, gives its leaves and its happiness to the winds.
– Persian
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
– Anais Nin
If you are happy, don't analyse your happiness, don't ask questions and don't even think about it; just live it to the fullest!
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
– Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse
If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
– Mother Teresa
If you see a door to happiness, do not waste your time knocking it, just open the door and walk in!
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
– Maurice Chevalier
In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy.
– Unknown
In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.
– Francis Quarles
In the sandal-tree are serpents, in the water lotus flowers, but crocodiles also; even virtues are marred by the vicious?in all enjoyments there is something which impairs our happiness.
– The Hitopadesa
In this world, however little happiness may have been our portion, yet have we no desire to die. Whether he can speak of life as cheerful and delicate, or as full of pain, anxiety, and sorrow, never yet have I seen one who wished to die.
– Firdausi
