Happiness Quotes — page 49

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her played, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

it seems arbitrary and unreasonable to exclude from the end, as so conceived, any pleasure of any sentient being.

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

Our definition of patriotism is often too narrow. Shall the lover of his country measure his loyalty only by his service as a soldier?

Oh love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure! and thou certain pain!

Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous?

Women are weak, as you say, and love of all things to be passive, Passive, patient, receptive, yea, even of wrong and misdoing, Even to force and misdoing with joy and victorious feeling Patient, passive, receptive; for that is the …

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but yexation.

If the effort also is predestined, it is not the less our effort, made of our free will.

Too much desire to please, pleasure divorces.

Compulsion is not indeed the final appeal to man, but joy is. And joy is everywhere

Drink: the immortal waters quench the spirit's longing. Art thou not now, bright one, all sorrow past, in elation, Made young with joy, grown brother-hearted with the vast, Whither thy spirit wending flits the dim stars past Unto the Light …

Happy is he that hidden causes knowes.

Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

There is nothing the country needs so much as another Wesley or Whitefield...To-day the world seems more irreligious than it has ever been in the Christian era. Irresponsible pleasure-seeking and prodigal luxury abound; church-going has …

Have you found your life distasteful? My life did and does smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I save and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I'll complain.

Every human being longs to be happy, to satisfy the wants of the body with food, with roof and raiment, and to feed the hunger of the mind, according to his capacity, with love, wisdom, philosophy, art and song.

Soon we found Peggy and Smiler in company, well embarked on the homeward road, and victualling where the grass was good. Right glad they were to see us again—not for the pleasure of carrying, but because a horse (like a woman) lacks, and …

I'm tired of Love; I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But money gives me pleasure all the time.

It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.

I know we are in frequent perils, that we may never return and all that, but the feeling that I am where I ought to be is a full compensation for all that is sinister, leaving me free to enjoy as if on a pleasure tour.

In this work I have attempted to treat economy as a calculus of pleasure and pain, and have sketched out,almost irrespective of previous opinions, the form which the science,as it seems to me, must ultimately take.