Happiness Quotes

Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.

The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.

Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.

Happiness is the only goal worth pursuing

Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

Happiness is this place that, once you arrive there, you have nothing else to do. You get bored. Passion is this up and down; it's like a rollercoaster, you know, and much more interesting to me.

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.

If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

The nature of a narrow and malevolent spirit is so essentially incompatible with happiness as to render it inaccessible to the influences of the benignant God.

There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.

All you need to do to be a bit sexier is to smile once in a while!

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

Sometimes we don't know what's best until we're forced into it. Often you can be just as happy or even happier with less.

WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars.

... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.

Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do.

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.

One does not always sing out of happiness.

Happiness is meant to be shared.

Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

The happier the moment the shorter.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

Happiness is the only thing I understand.

America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.

My own feeling is that human happiness is a very random thing, and bestows itself willy-nilly, and there's not much deserving about the matter.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.

The flip side of happiness is suffering.

A woman who knows her power has in her hands the key to her own happiness and success.

When sadness comes, accept it. Listen to its song. It has something to give to you. It has a gift which no happiness can give to you, only sadness can give it.

Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems

And that third dimension brings bliss. Bliss is without any opposite to it. It is serene, tranquil, cool. It is ecstasy without any excitement.

So the patient went to the mountains, and do you know what? Next day a telegram arrived for the psychiatrist. The patient said in the telegram, 'I am feeling very happy - why?'

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.