Happiness Quotes
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
Happiness is the enemy. It weakens you, puts doubts in your mind. Suddenly, you have something to lose.
May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find happiness with a checkbook.
The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.
I believe the world is as we choose to view it. Simple as that. Our happiness is, in the end, up to us, and to no one else.
Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.
So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other.
You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.
Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.
I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.
The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a bank account but in the way we make others feel.
As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
Femininity for me means happiness and freedom...freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.
Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion.
Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked.
My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.
My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as it were, in Its center.
People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Sometimes you have to get sad before you get happy 'cause otherwise how would you know the difference?
...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.
Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.
If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
Bullies enjoy dark happiness; these are the blank parts that eventually fill their minds with nothingness.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.