Happiness Quotes

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, Happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.

The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes people less self-focused and more altruistic.

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.

Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.

I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

Hope is itself a species of happiness.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object.

Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.

In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.

My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.

We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.

Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.

To me, the most important thing is happiness.

One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.

Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile.

The way to become happy Is to think And to feel That the very best is yet to come.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

I have never seen happier people than those who have repented.

But most significant in this tidal wave of happiness was the surest fact of all: I was with Edward. Forever - Bella Cullen

I want to be happy because it is beneficial for me but also because I want to be a messenger of happiness to my friends and family.

If you are not enjoying yourself, you are wasting time.

All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.

They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation starter. What goes around, comes around.

It is not swinish to be happy unless one is happy in swinish ways.

You smile. No, it is not fatal.

You can choose to think in ways that will support you in your happiness and success instead of ways that don't.

This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.

There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception.

You have to be willing to be happy. Despite the mess of your life-just accept what's happened, throw away your ideals, and create a new map of happiness to follow.

Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.

It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.

No man is happy but by comparison.

There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.

...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.