Happiness Quotes

One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain.

On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I, No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.

Without the smile from partial beauty won, O what were man? - a world without a sun.

And there is even a happiness That makes the heart afraid.

The objects of this primary education . . . would be . . . to form the statesmen, legislators and judges, on whom public prosperity and individual happiness are so much to depend.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.

I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.

We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.

If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

Happiness comes from living the way the Lord wants you to live.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.

Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself

A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.

Spending on oneself does not boost wellbeing. However, spending money on others does -- and it appears to be as important to people's happiness as the total amount of money they make.

I intend that I am learning from my experiences so that I am only repeating the ones that bring me happiness.

I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.

My personal belief is that the only thing keeping you from freedom is all the beliefs you have about what has to happen before you can be there.

I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness

If we seek the most happiness we can as individuals, it sort of bleeds into other people's lives.

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

There are no rules for felicity.

Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

No happiness equals the joy of finding a heart that understands.

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

Man, Coach Brown, he's so relaxed. We've seen that guy dancing this week at practice and he's dancing in the locker room. It brings tears to guys' eyes and brings happiness to everybody.

In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.

The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

Happiness is not the portion of man.

Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.

Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.

It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.

It is essential to his happiness that he should continually advance.

Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.