Happiness Quotes

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

And they would all smile at the beauty of destruction.

Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.

Don't give up the search for happiness because you're afraid of getting hurt.

Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

Laughter is taken as a sign of strength, freedom, health, beauty, youth, and happiness.

The breadth and depth of what dogs do for our happiness and longevity is pretty remarkable.

Peace-not passion, not personal possessions, not personal accomplishments nor happiness-is one of the greatest blessings a man can receive.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Some days are simply meant for playing.

My definition of happiness is having something to do what you love to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.

There is always the personal, simple happiness that doesn't happen.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

Alcohol, contrary to instinct, is not the secret to happiness.

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to reframe obligation as opportunity. You don't have to spend Thanksgiving with your family. You get to.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses.

Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.

As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them.

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.

You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine.

Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.

Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent.

Happiness is often hard-hearted.

All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.

happiness, unlike grief, does not clamor for a chronicler.

It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness.

Today's belief is tomorrow's behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today.

Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.

A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox.

My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.

One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.

Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.

Intelligence is the airport; will power is the airplane; man is the passenger and happiness is the destination!

When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare it is!

Do not focus on being happy, focus on doing something useful; afterwards, happiness will flow towards you!

Every house takes its light from the happiness inside the house! No happiness, no light!

Flexibility is one of the main roads leading to happiness.

Happiness in nature is a double happiness; sorrow in nature is a half sorrow!

Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment.