Quotes About Lifetime Happiness

#1. The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.

Virginia Postrel

#2. In a relationship, prudent application of the gray theory is a key ingredient in assuring years of happiness; "till death do us part". Balance is at the center of success, satisfaction and a lifetime of love.

Carlos Wallace

#3. Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.

J.G. Ballard

#4. What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. I love you, Caro. I ain't an easy man to love. I'm grateful every damn day that you see past what's on the surface and know the man I am down deep. It's never scared you - even when it's scared me. You give me more happiness and love in one day than I ever thought I'd have in a lifetime. Thank you.

Lorelei James

#6. As a lifetime proposition, happiness is a discipline, no doubt; but for moments at a time, it's a piece of luck. A piece of luck and a clue: a hint, not just of what might be, but of what already exists, in the heart of a man's heart ...

John Burnside

#7. Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

Lawrence G. Lovasik

#8. One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow ... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.

Victor Hugo

#9. Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of this lifetime. It will stay with you.

Frederick Lenz

#10. The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

#11. Rebecca tilted her face up to Jake and she felt his lips brushing lightly against hers. Then his lips were beside her ear, whispering, A lifetime of happiness, Reb, I promise.

Lorraine Heath

#12. My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. What you give with love stays with you for a lifetime.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Some people live a lifetime every second, others only a second in a life time with little happiness to find. Learn to seize each and every second and make your life divine!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#15. Money - it can buy you a moment of glee but not a lifetime of happiness.

Carew Papritz

#16. Happiness requires both complete goodness and a complete lifetime.

Aristotle.

#17. Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to use them creatively so they guide us to happiness, is an essential lifetime skill.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#18. Life is not about warming yourself by the fire, life is about building the fire. And generosity is the match ... If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap, but if you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

Larry Lucchino

#19. Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Russell Baker

#20. A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

#21. Over the years
a great deal has to be thrown out.
The notion, for instance,
that happiness is mild and enduring,
something like a southern climate
instead of a bolt of lightning
that leaves scars
cherished a lifetime.

Hanny Michaelis

#22. The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

Aristotle.

#23. My mother once told me that a lifetime of good enough was a fair price to pay for a single moment of pure happiness. This is my moment. Don't take that away from me.

Beatriz Williams

#24. They would never know how lucky they had been. For a lifetime, mankind had achieved as much happiness as any race can ever know. It had been the Golden Age. But gold was also the color of sunset, of autumn: and only Karellen's ears could catch the first wailings of the winter storms.

Arthur C. Clarke

#25. In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Richard Bach

#26. The only reasonable goal in life is maximizing your total lifetime experience of something called happiness. That might sound selfish, but it's not. Only a sociopath or a hermit can find happiness through extreme selfishness. A normal person needs to treat others well in order to enjoy life.

Scott Adams

#27. When all is said and done, everyone should be able to look back on their life and know that they made it exactly as they wanted it to be.

A.J. Darkholme

#28. For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

Joyce Carol Oates

#29. Believe in people, they fly for a day. Teach them to believe in themselves, they soar for a lifetime.

A.D. Posey

#30. He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

George Bernard Shaw

#31. A journey of a lifetime is measured by memories, not by time.

Debasish Mridha

#32. He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.

Ann Aguirre

#33. I am no good without you, Ginesse," he said. "I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.

Connie Brockway

#34. One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain ... my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a good roll in the hay ... she missed out on all that ... like me, her son ... a lifetime of sacrifice! ... the woman who can grunt and rave in the throes of a deep fuck can die happy ...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#35. He stops and looks at me. 'I'm here because of you. You're my priority. Your happiness, in some fucked way, is tuned in to mine. Get that through your thick skull. Would I like it any other way? Hell, yes, but I don't think that will be happening in my lifetime.

Melina Marchetta

#36. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

Confucius

#37. There is no REASON to keep SEASONAL people around for a LIFETIME.

Auliq Ice

#38. Life is a lifetime opportunity to make the right choice to be great.

Debasish Mridha

#39. In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

#40. A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.

Zicheng Hong

#41. He decided that for an ounce of that laughter, he could sacrifice an entire lifetime of happiness.

Faraaz Kazi

#42. Appreciation empowers not just money transactions, but all interactions. Gratitude is one of the greatest meditations of a lifetime, the fastest attitude uplifter I know. Be grateful for all the good in your life and your good will only increase, along with your happiness.

Alan Cohen

#43. My lifetime is my existence in a sacred moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#44. It is time for a return to childhood, to simplicity, to running and climbing and laughing in the sunshine, to experiencing happiness instead of being trained for a lifetime of pursuing happiness. It is time to let children be children again.

L.R. Knost