Happiness Quotes

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?

whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

The world needs divine power in every human being the recognition of which is the secret to all success and happiness.

for true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with which to enjoy it!

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

Happiness is a hardy annual.

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.

Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos.

No one has a right to happiness.

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it’s not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.

He remembers when he was very small his mother once said she wished happiness and adventure for him. If this does not count as adventure, he is not sure what does.

Live a little. Laugh a little. Love a little. Happiness will find you in a big way.

If you want to retire happy, great health is important. The foundation for all happiness lies in health. Physical, mental, or spiritual health - you must use it or lose it!

Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.

If you believe that happiness can be bought, then why don't you try selling some of yours?

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

You have to smile after making trouble. This way you get in less trouble.

Account no man happy till he dies.

Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.

Money is the longest route to happiness.

Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.

Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there

One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.

To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant.

How little has situation to do with happiness.

Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.

Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

I think personally it's not good for anyone - I don't think infidelity leads to happiness. It's painful for the person being cheated on, but also for the person who's cheating.

It's very dangerous, making your happiness based on success and fashion. I know the media cares about all that, but I try to ignore that world anyway.