Happiness Quotes

Happiness comes from growing what thrives, not merely survives.

We simply want to follow God because we knows of the happiness it will bring, that's the reason that we chose to be open about our beliefs.

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

I enjoy acting, and it's given me a ton of happiness and it's affected my life and my family's lives in ways that we just can't imagine.

Happiness is the default state of mind, lets reconfigure to reach the default state !

Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.

Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

Killing your rival doesn’t guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power than the annoyances of living ones.

I’d relived enough terrible events happening to cautious people to know that prudence wasn’t a guarantee for happiness.

Maybe there was no happily ever after [...] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

It didn't take long for the anger to put the happiness in a headlock.

Too bad the smile was on the face of the wrong man.

Are you OK?" I asked. "I think so." Logan stared at me, and a smile pulled up his lips. "But maybe you should give me mouth-to-mouth, just to make sure.

The idea of happiness for me is being in tune with all around me, at one with all that is. Awareness of our interconnectedness. Harmony.

I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.

Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.

For years, I kept a Post-it note above my desk. WORK NOT LOVE! was what it said. It seemed a sturdier kind of happiness.

Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.

I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative and break out the guitar or pen and write about it.

The laws governed people's happiness. To be lawless was to be happy.

Why is everybody so obsessed? Money can't buy us happiness

We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in

Happiness can be a simple thing just like dreaming of someone you've missed for a long time.

When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.

I'm not defined by what people think of me. My happiness comes from within.

The smile made her want to hug him, and maybe love him up some more. Stupid smile.

I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

Success is.... happiness. Is that too Deepak Chopra?

The key to happiness. Hm.... There are just so many factors. I think it's just a way of being. It's about.... every little thing in moderation. Whether it be stress, anger, joy, depression.

Happiness, at my age, is breathing

There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.

To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.

Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.

If you develop an image of success, health, abundance, joy, peace, happiness, nothing on earth will be able to hold those things from you.

I don't think it's that hard [to lead a Christian life]. To me it's fun. We have joy and happiness.

Happiness is not a house where you can live. (But it is a house you can build.)

Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none.

Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught when convicted of his error, and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces truth, though with the sacrifice of favourite opinions.

Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.