Happiness Quotes

To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.

I cannot say where I will be in 5 yearsscratch that, tomorrowBut I know that wherever you find me, I will remain true to myself with a genuine smile on my face and happiness in my heart.

Be able to laugh at difficulties.

It's not insincere to say you're happy if your determined to make it true and live in that consciousness.

Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues.

To love is to place happiness in the heart of another.

With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.

I have no problem with the concept of financial riches, but if you need to change the person you are in order to achieve that, I think you're taking too much of a gamble with your personal happiness.

Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.

Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

Happiness is temporary and fleeting. ... Joy is the right goal.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.

The lower your self-esteem, the more apt you are to believe that someone else holds the key to your happiness.

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Call no man happy before he dies.

All happiness is built upon small efforts.

The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.

[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.

Happiness is transparent. ... That is its virtue.

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

Happiness is a privilege.

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

There is no one way to Happiness. Happiness is the way! It's inside your head FIRST and everyplace else second

Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.

Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!

Wine is only sweet to happy men.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever.

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

Happiness begins when selfishness ends.

Happiness is being served with a paternity suit on your 75th birthday.

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.