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It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.
Sep 10, 2025
Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.
It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.
He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.
Households, cities, countries and nations have enjoyed great happiness, when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such men not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.
Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.
The finite mind of man can never grasp the mysteries of the infinite. It is the highest wisdom, as it is our great happiness, to accept our limitations, to use what we have, and leave the rest to God.
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
To fill the hour──that is happiness.
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.
I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
I think happiness is what makes you pretty.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.
If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.
Above all, I will keep an open heart. As I move on the right path I will recieve great happiness as a reward without asking for anything in return.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.
Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.