Possibility Of Happiness Quotes

#1. A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

Rebecca West

#2. Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it.

Franz Kafka

#4. I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

George Santayana

#5. I renounce all love except pure philosophical love. The so-called love of human animals removes people two by two from the only possibility of happiness, which is the communion of beautiful souls.

Tom Stoppard

#6. One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and now I do believe in it. Let the dead bury their dead, but while one has life one must live and be happy!

Leo Tolstoy

#7. The trick ... is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

Wendy Wasserstein

#8. Justice of the world is in its creativity, in solving problems, in our activity and struggle. While I am alive there is the possibility to act, to strive for happiness, this is justice.

Simon Soloveychik

#9. Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.

Antonio Damasio

#10. Let us now yearn for the possibility of building a happiness in every heart. Let us now build inward a new world of hope, a world of limitless possibilities for the children of tomorrow, where each soul can reach the heights of their potential to love and to be loved.

Bryant McGill

#11. With love you can transform inner sparks of possibility into flames of reality.

Debasish Mridha

#12. But in practice, neither believed in friendship or loyalty. They believed in passion, they believed in a hybrid form of social or public happiness (both voted Socialist, albeit with the occasional abstention), they believed in the possibility of self-realization.

Roberto Bolano

#13. Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.

Newell Dwight Hillis

#14. Taking risks is part of life, but to take risks invites the possibilty of failure and rejection, but also the possibility of true happines.

Morten Hogsberg

#15. Because he wanted nothing from her; this was a generous, expansive feeling, unattached to the possibility of gratification; it was the simple happiness that came from knowing that one particular person was alive in the world

Jo Baker

#16. I have lived through much and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet, secluded life in the country with possibility of being useful to people.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#18. One hundred eighty days, Aislinn. Seth's been gone for one hundred eighty days, and I've watched you try to pretend it doesn't hurt for every one of them. Can't I try to make you happy?

Melissa Marr

#19. I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant, I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Bertrand Russell

#20. To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

John Lubbock

#21. When there is no cure, give the hope and share the possibility. Shine the light of miracle in the darkness of impossibility.

Debasish Mridha

#22. [If] a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#23. There are two times in a person's life when there is the possibility of pure happiness: in youth and in summer.

Brielle A. Marino

#24. Don't let psychological warfare from an advertisement campaign blind you from the truth of your beauty, possibility, worthiness, and purpose.

Steve Maraboli

#25. In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Franz Kafka

#26. Life is worth more than man will ever know. Each of our choices open up the possibility of a different world. Every time we wake up, the universe puts itself in our hands. So many paths. So many choices. Our discernment is the only way to tell which one leads to happiness.

Thierry Cohen

#27. It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

Marcel Proust

#28. Do not give up when touching the Door of Awareness, you meet its Mindfulness Magic, but let it open wide giving your family a possibility to Create Reality of Your Dreams.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#29. While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen.

Marcy Dermansky

#30. Life Is Full Of Obstacles, But You Must Complete Them All To Find True Happiness

Terrin White

#31. Natasha was happy as she had never been in her life. She was at that highest pitch of happiness, when one becomes completely good and kind, and disbelieves in the very possibility of evil, unhappiness, and sorrow.

Leo Tolstoy

#32. The total absence of desire brings happiness. It also brings freedom and liberation, because whenever something is lacking there are both limits and dependency. Only when nothing at all is lacking is there the possibility of total freedom. Freedom brings happiness. And happiness is salvation.

Rajneesh

#33. Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

Colum McCann

#34. Why are we so quick to limit the possibility of our own happiness?

Steve Maraboli

#35. Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.

Max Ernst

#36. We are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

Paulo Coelho