Measure Happiness Quotes

#1. Enlightenment, the great mysterious state of mind, is contentment, or freedom from suffering. How then do we measure happiness? We measure it in smiles, in the openness of our hearts, in generosity, in gratitude and compassion towards others, and in the steadiness of our contentment.

Andrew Furst

#2. where you live is just geography. And you can't measure happiness in dollars and cents.

Tilly Bagshawe

#3. At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents, plan around the tides, follow the sun. We measure happiness by nothing we can hold, nothing we can catch. Everywhere, life is jumping and elusive and momentously momentary.

Sandy Gingras

#4. There are no instruments to measure happiness it is mind related feeling.

Krishmano

#5. I've found that you can't measure happiness the way you measure yards in a race. You just learn to recognize it when it arrives so you can enjoy it while it lasts.

Karen White

#6. How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.

Parker J. Palmer

#7. Happiness begins with impeccability of the word. The way to measure the impeccability of my word is to ask, "Am I happy or am I suffering?" If I'm suffering, then I'm not being impeccable with my word.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#8. If I were to measure my successes by the mistakes that I have made & only focus on the lessons that were learned along the way, then that in itself overall, would be a positive step in the right direction.

Christine Upton

#9. To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

George Santayana

#10. You will never have to talk religion to anyone; men will see it talking in your life! You will radiate a positive influence at all times, which will in turn bring you happiness and health in good measure.

Albert E Cliffe

#11. The measure of your greatness is not by the narrowness of your beliefs, but by the broadness of your vision.

Debasish Mridha

#12. The measure of space & time creates an echo of haunting distance between us, yet we are close, we are united in the love we forge together.

Truth Devour

#13. Measure your life not by its duration, but by its contribution.

Debasish Mridha

#14. 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

#15. Living in a world where people measure their happiness by self-indulgence and decadence, Is like watching a whole society being pushed into the abyss of perpetual decay and aberrations.

Husam Wafaei

#16. The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our relationships - including, unavoidably, our relationships with men.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#17. You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#18. The measure of life is not by duration but by effective action.

Debasish Mridha

#19. You wake up one morning to realize life has, literally, passed you by. Even though the living felt long and filled with happiness beyond measure, the reliving brings to mind how fleeting time is compared to the stars in the sky above us.

Tymber Dalton

#20. The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being

Bruce Lee

#21. We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.

Seth Adam Smith

#22. The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness.

William John Locke

#23. That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

Lupe Fiasco

#24. The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham

#25. Happiness is a measure of one's fill of not physical success, but of mental and spiritual success.

Lionel Suggs

#26. Before you can improve your life and find a measure of happiness, you must learn to do one thing every day out of pure love.

Harold Klemp

#27. Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy
Be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more
To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath
This neighbours air, and let rich music's tongue
Unfold the imagined happiness that both
Receive in either by this dear encounter.

William Shakespeare

#28. What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity?

David Levithan

#29. There might not be a measure of happiness left in a life, but there could be beauty and grace and endless love.

Peter Heller

#30. To the barefoot man, happiness is a pair of shoes. To the man with old shoes, it's a pair of new shoes. To the man with new shoes, it's stylish shoes. And of course, the fellow with no feet would be happy to be barefoot. Measure your life by what you have not by what you don't.

Michael Josephson

#31. Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.

Josef Pieper

#32. There should be a measure for happiness or sadness, like the width of your smile, the twinkle in your eyes, the depth of your laughter or the salt of your tears.

Srividya Srinivasan

#33. You are the ruler of my heart. There is no measure greater than this.

Truth Devour

#34. To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#35. Back in those days I was stoned almost twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The difference today is that there is nothing you or anyone else could say to persuade me to inhale enough even to fill a flea's lung with cannabis. It's actually impossible to measure how fantastic I feel.

Chris Sullivan

#36. Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

John C. Maxwell

#37. Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

Samuel Chase

#38. No happiness exists without its woe, no wealth without its cost, and no life without its full measure, sooner or later, of sorrowing and death.

Gregory David Roberts

#39. There's no need to measure the happiness of a life by its longevity.

Cate Culpepper

#40. Learning to measure success by the energy, and happiness my endeavors bring me.

Alba Vales

#41. We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Agnes Repplier

#42. There is also a false serenity that is not at all Christian. We need feel no shame as Christians about a measure of impatience, longing, protest against what is unnatural, and a strong measure of desire for freedom and earthly happiness and the capacity to effect change. In

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#43. Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It oftentimes wants spirit as well as good nature.

Jeremy Collier

#44. The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.

Alessandra Torre

#45. Measure a person not by his possessions but by his dreams and vision.

Debasish Mridha

#46. I wish there could be an international peace
conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own
conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no
small measure on them and on the librarians.

Christopher Morley

#47. I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#48. The measure of a life is not in its longevity but in its generosity.

Debasish Mridha

#49. It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it ... The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

Michel De Montaigne

#50. Stop trying to 'fix' yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.

Steve Maraboli

#51. The measure of success is not by opulence but by happiness

Debasish Mridha

#52. I thought of rhyme alone,
For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble
And make the daylight sweet once more ...

William Butler Yeats

#53. Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.

Lord Chesterfield

#54. There is a measure of safety in blindness, but you can't find happiness in safety, no matter how much you want to.

Maria Rachel Hooley

#55. Measure of life is not by its duration but by the amount of love you gave away without expectations.

Debasish Mridha

#56. So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

Carl Jung

#57. Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

Sigmund Freud

#58. But while the imaginations of other people will carry them away to form wrong judgements of our conduct, and to decide on it by slight appearances, one's happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance.

Jane Austen

#59. Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.

Adam Davidson

#60. The measure of life is not by success you achieve, but by the donation you made without expectation to receive.

Debasish Mridha

#61. The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.

Bobby Davro

#62. The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.

Robert Wilson Lynd

#63. If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.

Justin Long

#64. The measure of life is not what you have done for yourself, but what you have done for others.

Debasish Mridha

#65. The measure of greatness is in humility, simplicity, and in kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#66. The measure of life is not defined by how much you are earning, but how much you are giving back.

Debasish Mridha

#67. I sat helpless to prevent the closing of that chapter of idyllic love, dreading the return of the young man whose ineffable happiness was only to be the measure of his fall. I

Willa Cather

#68. I stopped knowing what to fight against."
"May you find some measure of happiness in your surrender. May we all.

Kiersten White

#69. Tiny Giggles
Silly giggles of laughter
I store upon a shelf
I give some to other
I save some for myself
I am rich beyond all measure
Though not with worldly wealth
I store up these treasures
For my heart and soulful health.

Muse

#70. Measure of life is not by the wealth or splendor but by the love you have given away.

Debasish Mridha

#71. I tend to think the good outweighs the bad. Then again, I try to be a glass-half-full person. Although I stand by my theory that if you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid in your glass, you are either a cliche or an alcoholic.

Caprice Crane

#72. Not money, but love, is life's treasure. Spend it, invest it; the returns will be without measure.

Debasish Mridha

#73. The measure of life is not by its duration, but by the difference that you have made in this world.

Debasish Mridha

#74. It's madness to envy other people's happiness. Happiness doesn't come of the peg, it has to be made to measure.

Andre Gide

#75. It is inevitable, therefore, that some approaches to politics, economics, science, and even spirituality and ethics will be objectively better than their competitors (by any measure of "better" we might wish to adopt), and gradations here will translate into very real differences in human happiness.

Sam Harris

#76. It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.

Euripides

#77. You cannot be healthy and happy without discipline. If you want to measure the level of happiness in your life, just measure the level of discipline in your life. You will never have more happiness than you have discipline.

Matthew Kelly