Happiness Quotes

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

Kissing power is stronger than will power.

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

Ladies, your happiness is very important to us. You have to understand that. Because when you're happy, you let us touch you.

Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried.

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.

If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.

Happiness is never grand.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.

Happiness is egotistical.

Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

Gratitude is a choice. Happiness is an attitude.

The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.

Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.

When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

Happiness is health and a short memory!

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.

The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.

I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.

The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.

The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success... I'm just here to cash in.

The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!

The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.

I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.

I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.

People who recognize that money won't buy happiness are still willing to see if credit cards will do the trick.

You try for a little happiness, and what do you get? A few memories and a fat stomach!

We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul.

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

By his provocations to good-natured merriment, a humorist of the first water contributes as much to the sum of happiness as the gravest philosopher.

Bad things sometimes happen to good people; the key to happiness is try to make the best of, and be thankful for the hand we're dealt

Our business is to be happy.

Inner values like friendship, trust, honesty and compassion are much more reliable than money - they always bring happiness and strength.

When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love.

All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.

So long as we are under the control of disturbing emotions, real happiness is hard to find.

Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.