Happiness Bird Quotes

#1. Take whatever cause for outward happiness you might have and take it within yourself, so that, if the sun should go out, you will not be any less happy; if the birds stop singing you will not be any less happy.

Goswami Kriyananda

#2. Happiness is like a bird. If it chooses
to sit on your roof, you cannot capture it and put it in a cage.

Farin Powell

#3. The psalmist saith more to the point about true happiness in this short Psalm than any one of the philosophers, or all of them put together; they did but beat the bush, God hath here put the bird into our hand. John Trapp, 1660

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#4. Looking round upon those eager, friendly faces, I compared them with the cold face of the [christian] missionary, who suddenly appeared to me as a great bird of prey

Marmaduke William Pickthall

#5. Like a bird, fly against the wind of opinions to reach your destination.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?

A.A. Milne

#7. Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#8. You see the bird and you see its flight.
You can not see through its eyes. Therefore, you don't know its plight.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#9. I realized that happiness was not some bird that landed on your shoulder by accident, but was a skill that was taught, or not taught, in certain houses and families. After

Jewel

#10. Happier than a bird with a french fry.

Leslea Tash

#11. Happiness, like life itself, was as fragile as a bird's heartbeat, as fleeting as the bluebells in the wood, but while it lasted,

Kate Atkinson

#12. Accept all happiness from me.
Then shall i turn my face, and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.
in the lost lands

E. E. Cummings

#13. Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.

Amy Harmon

#14. All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?

C.S. Lewis

#15. In the West, for example, people believe they must 'pursue happiness' as if it were some kind of a flighty bird that is always out of reach. In the East, we believe we are born with happiness and one of life's important takes, my mother told me, is to protect it.

Le Ly Hayslip

#16. The key to happiness is to listen to campy Parisian music and smile at a bird. It hinges on insanity, but it works.

Erica Goros

#17. If you think happiness is a rare bird you won't see much of it.

Marty Rubin

#18. I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

Richard Peck

#19. The sharp thrill of seeing them [killdeer birds] reminded me of childhood happiness, gifts under the Christmas tree, perhaps, a kind of euphoria we adults manage to shut out most of the time. This is why I bird-watch, to recapture what it's like to live in this moment, right now.

Lynn Thomson