Happiness Quotes

I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

Life is a dance... Enjoy every step.

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness.

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

Smile may be of different style,but that which adorns the face of a real person is only an honest ONE.

Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?

Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.

A smile can heal a thousand wounds.

A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.

I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world

I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.

We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.

It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

Life is the reward of virtue. And happiness is the goal and reward of life.

Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

The blues he sends to meet me, won't defeat me. It won't be long til happiness steps up to greet me.

Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever.

I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between.

It was a smile that spelled trouble. With a promise.

It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.

The US Constitution only guarantees your rights as a citizen, it doesn't guarantee happiness. It may take work, but if you have your rights, happiness is very possible.

Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.

In order to be happy you need a good dog, a good woman, and ready money.

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.

Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.

When I was a child . . . Only virtue was prized, virtue at the expense of intellect, health, happiness, and every mundane good.

All the conditions of happiness are realized in the life of the man of science.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has had very little success with either one.

Trusting fear, while fearing trust and happiness often creates a less than happy life.

Happiness is not a place - it is a direction.

Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?