Happiness Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Borrow Happiness Happiness Happiness Time Inspirational Life Life is Life Obliged Obliged Period Life Periods Time
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We become happier, much happier, when we realize life is an opportunity rather than an obligation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With happiness comes sadness. Every house that once was filled with joy will be faced with examples and each one of you is a… — Ibn Al Qayyim Copy Share Image
“Happiness has no time limits or conditions; the only requirement is to give it away.” — George Alexiou Copy Share Image
As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation… There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS… — MARVIN J. ASHTON Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
