Quotes - J.M. Barrie
J.M. Barrie:
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Quotes - W.P. Kinsella
W.P. Kinsella:
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get
Quotes - Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult:
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
Idiom - A ray of sunshine
A ray of sunshine:
Something is a ray of sunshine if it brings happiness to someone. - This idiom is most often used when talking about something that has brought happiness to someone who's been having trouble in their life.
The birth of Debra's first grandchild less than a year after her husband died came as a much-needed ray of sunshine in her life.
After years of struggling to get established as a writer, the publication of her first short story was a ray of sunshine for Ruth.
Something is a ray of sunshine if it brings happiness to someone. - This idiom is most often used when talking about something that has brought happiness to someone who's been having trouble in their life.
The birth of Debra's first grandchild less than a year after her husband died came as a much-needed ray of sunshine in her life.
After years of struggling to get established as a writer, the publication of her first short story was a ray of sunshine for Ruth.
Quotes - Creflo Dollar
Creflo Dollar:
Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be.
Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be.
Quotes - Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius:
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts
Quotes - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky:
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
Quotes - Anna Pavlova
Anna Pavlova:
"When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
"When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Quotes - Robert Frost
Robert Frost:
Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.
Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.
Quotes - Syrie James
Syrie James:
I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.
I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.
Quotes - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Quotes - Albert Camus
Albert Camus:
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Quotes - Margaret Runbeck
Margaret Runbeck:
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Quotes - Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein:
If you wanna live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.
Quotes - Johann Wolfgang
Johann Wolfgang:
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Quotes - Theodore Reik
Theodore Reik:
The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.
Quotes - Tom Wilson
Tom Wilson:
Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy... But how much you enjoy what you have.
Quotes - James Clarke
James Clarke:
Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
Quotes - Benjamin Spock
Benjamin Spock:
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Vocabulary - Halcyon
Halcyon:
Peaceful, gentle, and calm; happy and carefree.
She recalled the halcyon days of her life.
Persian: آسوده و خوش
Vocabulary - Bliss
Bliss:
Complete happiness or enjoyment.
I didn't have to get up till 6. It was sheer bliss.
Ignorance is bliss.
A feeling of bliss came over him as he fell asleep.
Persian: شادمانی، خوشی
Quotes - George Orwell
George Orwell:
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Quotes - Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin:
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Quotes - Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin:
Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
Quotes - Isabelle Eberhardt
Isabelle Eberhardt:
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
Vocabulary - Ecstatic
Ecstatic:
Feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement.
The exhibition attracted thousands of visitors and ecstatic reviews.
The president was greeted by an ecstatic crowd.
Persian: به وجد آمده، شادمان