Happiness Quotes

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Virtue alone is happiness below.

What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —

One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

We needs must love the highest when we see it.

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.

The universe holds enough happiness and success for everyone.

We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

we sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought. ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play.

It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.

Seeking the kingdom of God leads to joy and happiness.

It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.

My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.

Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief?

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

Where there is change, there is happiness

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...

Without faith we count down the days to death, with it we count up the days till happiness

Our happiness relies more on hope, faith and our inner values than on anything outside ourselves.

I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style.

He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.

Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.

Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.

It was the smile which runs before a promise.

Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse.