Top 100 Call Happiness Quotes
#1. I don't think I've ever known what you people call happiness. We think of contentment as the desirable thing, and maybe that's negative.
John Steinbeck
#2. Love your life. That's a direct route to something people used to call "happiness".
Clementine Holzinger
#3. Great Benefactor! How absurd- to want pain! Can there be anyone who doesn't know that pain is a negative quality, and that if you add them up it reduces the sum we call happiness? so it follows ...
But ... nothing follows. The slate is clean. Naked.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#4. In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.
H.P. Lovecraft
#5. And if all could with one voice be asked whether they wished to be happy, there is no doubt they would all answer that they would. And this would not be possible unless the thing itself, which we call "happiness", were held in memory.
Augustine Of Hippo
#6. Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness
Frederick Lenz
#7. Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.
Milton Sapirstein
#8. 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.
Sigmund Freud
#9. I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.
Gen Urobuchi
#11. We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
Andre Gide
#12. I can't help feeling that people ask too much [of life]. They don't keep up with the Joneses any more
they outstrip them. What people call happiness, today, isn't happiness. It's enjoyment. It's pleasure. And between happiness and pleasure there's a very large gap.
Elizabeth Cadell
#13. Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger
Yukio Mishima
#14. Suffering is primarily a
call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than
happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#15. Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.
William J. Bennett
#16. Tomorrow will never call to ask your opinion; you don't control it. Stop allowing today's possibilities to be robbed by tomorrow's insecurities.
Steve Maraboli
#17. Almost everyone nowadays is on the wrong track in their pursuit of
happiness. They think a great deal about having and receiving, about
outward show and success and being served by others. That is what most
people call fulfillment.
True fulfillment, though, lies in giving and serving.
Paulo Coelho
#18. No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.
Aristotle.
#19. Every call and every question has an answer and that is your love.
Debasish Mridha
#20. The past can't touch you or call you back; you are going far away from it with gratitude and wisdom to learn from the future.
Debasish Mridha
#21. We came to this world with love and hope to bloom like a flower, to beautify this garden we call earth, and spread the fragrance of happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#22. Mother Earth, one of my absolute favorite places ... where the sounds, the energy, the beauty and the Life pounds into your every fiber of being, letting you Know that you are alive. I will always respect and honor this gift of creation that we call our home.
Peace Gypsy
#23. Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.
Catherine Marshall
#24. When you have a toothache, you call your dentist and ask for an emergency appointment to relieve your pain. You know deeply at that point that not having a toothache is happiness. Yet later, when you don't have a toothache, you forget and do not treasure your non-toothache.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#25. The man will wait in front of the altar in his black suit. The woman will walk up the aisle in her white gown. The vow, the ring, the kiss.... All kind of romance. A gate to happiness. They call it marriage.
Yuli Pritania
#26. And we laugh and laugh and
all I know is
at this moment I feel like
I can do anything I want
and be anyone I want
and go anywhere on the globe
and still call it home
Kirsten Smith
#27. When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles
#28. A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#29. What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.
Aristotle.
#30. I share my happiness and sorrow
Cos I know for once there will be no tomorrow
If I wish to live in your memories
I too have to be there to share your worries
Speak up to your friend, am just a call away
Prashant Balan
#31. Not that one must be an
animal, but I find no meaning in the happiness of angels. I know
simply that this sky will last longer than I. And what shall I call
eternity except what will continue after my death?
Albert Camus
#32. You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!
Jennifer O'Neill
#33. I'm trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?
Kim Ung-yong
#34. Self-love isn't always so poetic; sometimes it's a nice big triple back flip kick in the ass. You've got to call yourself on your own nonsense; on the incredibly efficient way you can be self-destructive.
Steve Maraboli
#35. Embrace your imperfections.
Fancy your flaws.
Flaunt your blemishes.
Adore your birthmarks.
Laugh off glitches.
Discuss your setbacks.
Don't call your mistakes 'Regrets'
Call them 'Lessons
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#36. I want to thank everyone and everything,
every sunrise and every sunset,
every abundance and every beauty,
every tragedy and every triumph,
every sadness and every happiness,
every moment and every experience
that we call life deserves my deepest gratitude.
Debasish Mridha
#37. To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic.
Heather Anastasiu
#39. Call the right axe Sorrow," she said. "You know what I call the left one?" "Happiness?" "Sorrow. I can't tell them apart.
Lev Grossman
#40. your happiness depends far more on the number of instances of positive feelings, what psychologists call "positive affect," than on their intensity when they hit. In
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#41. People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
Soren Kierkegaard
#42. There is only one path to heaven. On Earth we call it Love.
Ayn Rand
#43. Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
David Hume
#44. Promiscuity does not scare me as long as she is savvy and self possessed when puberty comes to call. My aim is to simply raise my daughter to be secure in her self worth and capable of happiness all on her own.
Ani DiFranco
#45. Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break from their total pain, they feel a little better and they call it happiness.
Frederick Lenz
#46. You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.
Oprah Winfrey
#47. You are a dancer in this great stage we call life. Your imagination is the writer and thoughts are the director of the dance drama. So unleash your thoughts to dramatize your dance.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
William E. Gladstone
#49. You're alive. You're going through the most amazing journey we call life. The universe has been waiting for your smiles for billions of years. How can you be not happy today?
Debasish Mridha
#50. What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#51. What we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto. (p123) Architecture of Happiness
Alain De Botton
#52. Whenever you can call your enemy and tell him that you truly love him with compassion, then you are practicing the power of true love.
Debasish Mridha
#53. Everyday we are writing a page in a book we call life. So write it better, write it with love.
Debasish Mridha
#54. I like to call myself an "equal opportunist," as I love both dogs and cats, but over the last couple years, both Howard and I have become champions for cats. They are so independent and loving and playful and bring such happiness to our lives.
Beth Ostrosky Stern
#55. We buy things, not with money, but with our precious life we call time.
Debasish Mridha
#56. I believe that everything in Nature aspires to the acme of strength, well-being, and happiness; and everything that deviates from this I call immoral.
Henry Van De Velde
#57. Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#58. Human race should have a common goal and that is to establish infinite peace in this world which we call home.
Debasish Mridha
#59. There is a girl.
I named her love.
She has a father.
His name is desire.
Her mother has a name,
but not always the same.
We call her destiny.
Love calls her mommy.
Debasish Mridha
#60. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.
Aldous Huxley
#61. Mothers are the place that we call home. On them we rest our heads and close our eyes. There's no one else who grants the same soft peace, happiness, contentment, sweet release, erasing righttime tears with lullabies, restoring the bright sun that makes us bloom.
Nick Gordon
#62. I'm at peace, at last. I fear nothing. I yearn for nothing. I suppose you could call that happiness
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
#63. A triune God would call us to converse with him ... because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.
Timothy Keller
#64. What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was asked. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.
John Buchan
#65. Just by gazing upon her face ... No matter how weary you are, you will feel happy, deep inside your heart, you will feel a warmth This is a "piece of joy" This is all the happiness you need. Normally, we call this "love" ...
Yoshiki Nakamura
#66. Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.
Julian Baggini
#67. happiness is the precursor to success, not merely the result. And that happiness and optimism actually fuel performance and achievement - giving us the competitive edge that I call the Happiness Advantage.
Shawn Achor
#68. Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.
Jean Giono
#69. Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead
Neil Gaiman
#70. A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.
Aristotle.
#71. The sadness it feels in attaining any happiness less than the infinite - all these constitute the mating call of God to the soul.
Fulton J. Sheen
#72. Call no man happy before he dies.
Herodotus
#73. The lure of happiness and the fear of pain ... are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction.
Luther Burbank
#74. Call no man happy until he is dead.
Solon
#75. Whenever you feel me,
just call me
With the silence of your soul,
and with the softness of your love.
I will be with you,
With the magic of my love.
You may not see me,
But you will feel me.
You will hear my song
In the depth of your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#76. I interviewed 100 happy people - I call them my Happy 100 - and I learned amazing ideas and techniques from them that I began integrating into my life. I put them into practice - and they worked! I went from a D+ in happiness to an A-.
Marci Shimoff
#77. I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!
Heinrich Heine
#78. Oh, all my friends,
Young or old, mad or sad,
Loving or kind, optimist or pessimist,
Enjoy the drama of life,
enjoy the beauty of life,
enjoy every moment of it,
Because this is it,
We are all in our last journey
We call life.
Debasish Mridha
#79. You keep me going when i feel like a flat tyre
you do my head right, like a hair dryer
can i call you my machanic since you change my mood and get me feeling like i have got a spare tyre.
Mohlalefi J Motsima
#80. The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
Caitlin Doughty
#81. The pessimist may call the optimist a fool; but who is more foolish, the happy individual who expects more happiness or the one who fills his life with bitterness and has only more despair to look forward to?
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#82. When you hear the call to happiness, it is your responsibility to answer it.
Britt Reints
#83. Everyone in life has a story to tell, and sometimes there are things in our past we spend our lives running from. This book is dedicated to those who have retired their running shoes and found a piece of happiness they can call home.
Dannika Dark
#84. What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia
#85. I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas.
Flannery O'Connor
#86. I often talk about unconditional love towards others. But the truth is I have always looked for favorable conditions when it comes to self-love and happiness.
Now that is what you call a true confession!
Saurabh Sharma
#87. If life is a poem, be the poet. If life is a story, be the author. If life is an adventure, be the hero. To live any other way is a waste of this experience we call life.
Steve Maraboli
#88. Happiness is a booty call: available and satisfying, but after a few hours, you're ready to call an Uber and get back to your real commitments.
Ari Gold
#89. If you are happy then you are the winner in the race we call life.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Whom shall I call on? Who will share with me The wretched happiness of staying alive?
Sergei Yesenin
#91. When people have given up on happiness they call themselves realists.
Marty Rubin
#92. The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
Joseph Butler
#93. Sunrise
What is the name
of the deep breath I would take
over and over
for all of us? Call it
whatever you want, it is
happiness, it is another one
of the ways to enter
fire.
Mary Oliver
#94. All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.
Mother Jones
#95. We gave away most of our belongings. Interestingly, the more we gave away, the better we felt. Happiness researchers call this a 'helper's high,' in which helping others through volunteering or giving reduces stress and releases endorphins.
Tammy Strobel
#96. Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Princess Diana
#97. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
Jane Austen
#98. Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him (Hebrews 11:6, emphasis added). Call that payoff contentment, satisfaction, peace, or excitement - it all adds up to one word: happiness
Randy Alcorn
#99. But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art.
Aldous Huxley
#100. We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
William Penn
