Happiness Quotes

He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

He who would be happy should stay at home.

Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent two or no children at all.

Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered.

All the wealth of the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.

There's a thread that binds all of us together pull one end of the thread the strain is felt all down the line.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer recognize and protect and comfort each other.

In the Orient people believed that the basis of all disease was unhappiness. Thus to make a patient happy again was to restore him to health.

Loving like prayer is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.

The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick.

Laughter is the best medicine.

Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."

Money or even power can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given the chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Joy has nothing to do with material things or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

Getting what you go after is success but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.

No social system will bring us happiness health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.

Happiness depends as Nature shows less on exterior things than most suppose.

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money "making it" or success.

Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.

Better be happy than wise.

With happiness comes intelligence to the heart.

Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.

Happiness is a resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

Behold we count them happy which endure.

It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.

Let him that would be happy for a day go to the barber for a week marry a wife for a month buy him a new horse for a year build him a new house for all his lifetime be an honest man.

Who will present pleasure refrain shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

It is in virtue that happiness consists for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.

To live we must conquer incessantly we must have the courage to be happy.

Happiness has many roots but none more important than security.

Happy [is] the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear inexorable fate and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

For the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men but one and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.

Happiness is not a station to arrive at but a manner of traveling.

Everyone only goes around the track once in life and if you don't enjoy that trip it's pretty pathetic.

The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road for then the journey is over and it is too late.

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it you're still going to be taken along.

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.

Enjoy your happiness while you have it and while you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so.

Best to live lightly unthinkingly.