Happiness Happy Misery Quotes

#1. We need a great deal to be miserable, but very little to be happy.

Marty Rubin

#2. You love yourself and you are happy, and what you perceive as self-loathing and misery are really outside of you.

Bryant McGill

#3. The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

Lou Brock

#4. When happiness gets into your system, it is bound to break out on your face. While money can't buy happiness it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. You always know, at this very moment, exactly what it would be to look, and feel, and be, and act completely Happy.

Adi Da

#5. My mother dressed me always very conservatively.

Selma Blair

#6. Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous.

David Lloyd-Jones

#7. The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.

Herodotus

#8. The path to misery is paved by the tears of those trying to make others happy.

Steve Maraboli

#9. Another pitfall: Utilitarianism is interested only in making the majority of people happy. It is concerned with the happiness of the many, not the misery of the few, which is fine if you are lucky enough to be among the happy many, but not so fine if you find yourself among the miserable few.

Eric Weiner

#10. If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state. These states are always interchangeable. Eternal happiness and misery are a child's dream.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. ."The Swiss are uptight and happy. The Thais are laid-back and happy. Icelanders find joy in their binge drinking, Moldovans only misery. Maybe an Indian mind can digest these contradictions, but mine can't.

Eric Weiner

#12. A person can be miserable in a mansion and happy in a shack."

"Money will not buy happiness. It's merly the lack of it that can cause much of our misery.

Leon Forte

#13. If happiness shouldn't make you so miserable, misery shouldn't make you so happy.

Deb Caletti

#14. I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

Christian Bale

#15. If you see the world and yourself through a lens smudged by negativity then you'll find much misery. If you look outwards and inwards through lens brightened by positivity you'll find much to be happy and appreciative about.

Henrik Edberg

#16. There is but one genuine love potion - consideration ...

Menander

#17. The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

Paul Caponigro

#18. If you're always grateful for what you have, then you will always be happy. The greatest reason for misery and unhappiness today is because of dissatisfaction, complaining, and being ungrateful for the things we have.

Jeanette Coron

#19. Just resign yourself to the fact that you're going to be miserable so you can finally be happy. (It's a sound theory if you think about it hard enough.)

Richelle E. Goodrich

#20. I am glad you are happy
but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#21. Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

Charles Dickens

#22. The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

#23. I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. a

Martha Washington

#24. He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

Swami Vivekananda

#25. Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short ... was she happy? Not for a moment.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#26. Happiness exists where misery doesn't

Feroz Bham

#27. I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Martha Washington

#28. Gratitude is the antidote for misery. When you are counting your blessings you are too busy to be counting your problems.

Miya Yamanouchi

#29. The rich understand money flows from ideas, and since ideas are limitless, money is limitless.

Steve Siebold

#30. So I can be the girl from Titanic who stays high and dry while you, the guy, vanish beneath the icy waves? I don't think so.

Julia Spencer-Fleming

#31. I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?

W. Somerset Maugham

#32. I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know that I couldn't be doing this by my own power.

Francis Chan