Happiness Quotes

This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against it: the rest will be given you without effort.

So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.

The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.

you cannot let the pain of the past destroy the happiness of the future.

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy.

A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.

People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.

Money - like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself - is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.

If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!

If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?

Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.

O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.

Happiness is the result of what you do.

A smile is your greatest social asset.

Be happy without picking flaws.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

It's lovely to see people so happy.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

The more positive you are the more people want to be around you and the less positive you are...well, just reverse it!

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

There is no greater power than that of a laugh and happiness is a force which can save a person from the horrors of the world.

The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.

How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.

As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.

Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.

When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.

I've learned that sometimes a smile represents the greatest form of deceit.

It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.

I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.

What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.