Happiness Quotes

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

Those who achieve happiness understand the basic fact that regardless of how much fun you're having or how many things you accomplish, life through the lens of history is incredibly short.

For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack.

It seems you haven't really become a success until you have as many people as possible condemning you.

I gave him a smile. I was aiming for sweet, but he turned a shade paler and scooted a bit farther from me. Note to self: work more on sweet and less on psycho-killer.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity.

You may just miss an awesome ride if you only look at happiness as a destination.

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you.

Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven't had time to know how much better it ought to be.

God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.

So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.

Happiness is a solid and joy is a liquid.

one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

In the broader sense, work is the means to achieve happiness, prosperity. and salvation. When work and duty and joy are commingled, then man is at his best.

The smile he gave her was wistful, just a little lift to his mouth. "You are a fighter." ""Yes. Always. And sometimes I'm a whole army.

If the Angels won, the entire Earth would be nothing but one giant Christmas frickin' morning, a choking wave of happiness and warmth and caring and sharing taking over everything.

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

I've always had lots of friends who share my perspective - I guess you could say that I'm a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness.

Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

Money won't ever make you happy, nor was it ever meant to. Happiness comes from within. Money at best will make you more comfortable.

Sensitivity is equated with weakness. Feelings are for women. It's OK to express happiness or anger, but it's not OK to feel fear or sadness. This gets exaggerated in prison.

You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

Now they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth.

It's about thinking that being blonde and slim and perfect will automatically bring you happiness, and then discovering that life is full of as many disappointments as there were before.

Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

So few the grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance.

Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!

Are you afraid of me? Uh... yes.' The smile stayed fixed in place. 'You should be. You locked me in a refrigerator truck with three dead people. Sooner or later I'm going to get you for it.