Happiness Quotes

We're not meant for happiness, you and I.

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

Great people attract great people. The quality of your team can play a big role in employee happiness.

Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.

How you feel right now is about equally genetic and circumstantial, but how you will feel on average over the next ten years is fully 80 percent because of your genes.

In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us

To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent "Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze "The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.

I'm pretty happy for someone who struggles with happiness.

True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.

What's money without happiness?

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

Many friends are the key to happiness

I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World."

Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.

They smile in my face, behind my back they talk trash, Mad and stuff because they don't have cash.

You cannot struggle to joy. Struggle and joy are not on the same channel. You joy your way to joy. You laugh your way to success. It is through your joy that good things come.

Happiness hates the timid. So does science.

It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.

A father’s duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise past a certain earnings threshold.

Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.

The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

If your nature is infinite awareness trapped in a body, suddenly there's a lack of happiness, a lack of freedom. No matter what you get you'll never be happy, because these are all trinkets.

Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.

The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.

Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.

The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

I have enjoyed the happiness of the world; I have loved.

A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness

The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.

Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.

When you have great joy, you will become Buddhas!

Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.

You know, you’re pretty when you smile,” she said, patting the side of his cheek. “Fierce, woman. I am fierce.” “If you say so.

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.