Happiness Quotes

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.

Your success and happiness start with you.

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams.

But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ei.

By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man—every man—is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness is his highest moral purpose.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery.The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.

But, like all happiness, it did not last long…

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invicible host against difficulties.

(the whole world is at thethroat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed, cheated, everybody is despondent, disillusioned.)I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards ofhappiness.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immortality—I wish to live with you for ever.

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

The secret of happiness is something to do

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.