Happiness Quotes

One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.

Why do I want to run from happiness?

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.

We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.

We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam.

Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!

Many people see happiness only in their future.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

Human unhappiness is evidence of our immortality.

There is no higher happiness than peace.

The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise.

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

To conquer fear, you must become fear.

Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.

Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.

The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Say something worthwhile and people will listen.

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.

...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?

Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone.

Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.