Happiness Quotes

Every minute your mouth is turned down you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.

No pleasure without pain.

But here's what I've learned in this war in this country in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.

The sweetest joy the wildest woe is love.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it and to them only.

Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit that they are happy?

Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.

We are all happy if we only knew it.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much much better.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use.

Each moment in time we have it all even when we think we don't.

If all were gentle and contented as sheep all would be as feeble and helpless.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care then the happiest individual... would be I think an American cow.

When unhappy one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.

The more the heart is sated with joy the more it becomes insatiable.

No man is happy unless he believes he is.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though t'were his own.

Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

We never enjoy perfect happiness our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.

If ignorance is bliss why aren't there more happy teenagers?

As the sergeant said to the recruit: "You might as well be happy mate - no one cares if you ain't."

I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.

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

When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.

I look better feel better make love better and I'll tell you something else ... I never lied better.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number.

What is the worth of anything But for the happiness 'twill bring?

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we suppose ourselves to be.

Everyone speaks of it few know it.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong.

What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while so Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag And smile smile smile.

It's full of worth and goodness too with manly kindness blent It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.

If you banish fear nothing terribly bad can happen to you.

When in fear it is safest to force the attack.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

He that fleeth from the fear shall fall into the pit.

I wanted to be scared again ... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn the only way I feel challenged.

I was afraid to write Fear of Flying ergo I had to write it. I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it then I must do it.

From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.

He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six.

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

Winners take chances. Like everyone else they fear failing but they refuse to let fear control them.

Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.