Happiness Quotes

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Nelson Mandela

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

Siri Hustvedt

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Thomas Traherne

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Christopher Hampton

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Frida Lyngstad

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Denzel Washington

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

Vincent Nichols

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Ambrose Bierce

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

Bob Brown

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Ezra Taft Benson

The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be.

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Eckhart Tolle

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Honore de Balzac

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

James Payn
Happiness quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Future quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, UberQuotes

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Nicole Kidman

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Olympia Brown

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Samuel Richardson

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.

Virginia Postrel