Happiness Quotes

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.

Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness

How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

There is no happiness that isn't earned

Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.

Then they both smiled the exact same smile. Narcissism times two. Oh, get a room already.

Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain.

Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.

Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness

Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness.

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men.

Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

Smile, it increases you face value.

A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

Life is actually a series of tests. It's a social test, a happiness test, a business success test. You'd like to get A's in all of them.

Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature.

Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.

She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.[only if the past was better...if it was worse then you feel good that life is getting better]

Living one's life with unguarded vulnerability is one of the keys to happiness. It's also one of the keys to getting mugged.

[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

Home was quite a place when people stayed there.

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

Peace among the nations, like happiness for the individual, is not an end, but a by-product that usually comes when you live right.

Once a day you should look into the mirror to see if what stands between you and happiness isn't you.

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

Heaven wills our happiness, allows our doom.

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.