Households cities countries and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves they fill those they meet with a free mind.
It was physically difficult adjusting to wheelchair life but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful difficult but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
We all have a hungry heart and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading walking around the woods in Ohio where I grew up.
That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.
I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.
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.
But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.
Off with you! You're a happy fellow for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
When we recall the past we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
There is no true love save in suffering and in this world we have to choose either love which is suffering or happiness. Man is the more man - that is the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering or rather for anguish.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole and not that of any one class.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.