Happiness Quotes
I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.
Happiness is being at peace with yourself while the self is united with a larger order of things.
A real friend ... exults in his friends happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.
Right now at this very moment we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.
Nobody can be happy. You could have moments of happiness, moments of joy. But life is very difficult. Unless you're a total idiot. Then you can be happy.
A person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy.
Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.
A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
Happiness don't ask to see who you be afore her sits down at your table. 'Er comes and sits with them as know how to welcome her and keep her the willing guest.
Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."
Happiness is within you... so unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow- like the sweet flower you are. I know the answer- just spread your wings and set yourself free.
Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.
Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?
There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill.
The world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?
I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.
The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.
We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.
It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.
Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.
Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.
Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.
