Happiness Quotes

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people.

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

It is the happiness of heaven to have God be all in all.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Our danger is to think that happiness will come from outside of us, from the things we possess or the power of our group, and not from within us, from the inner sanctuary of our being.

Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.

Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Happiness is a choice.

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Love is the key. Giving your children joy and happiness...when you give it to them, you will receive it as well.

Happiness is a carnival game. It's never as easy as it looks, but the dumb ones always seem to be walking around with a big stuffed animal.

True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

Of course money buys happiness. You ever seen a homeless person skip? The answer to that riddle's no. They're not allowed.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up in life that they forget the purpose of life is to be happy.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

When you smile at people, its a signal to what you are bringing to their life.

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.

Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

No joy can equal the joy of serving others.

Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.

Whatever you focus upon, increases......When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing......A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

I think magic is very related to happiness. So it is not there all the time, but there are beautiful moments of magic in everyone's life.

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

Live with the objective of being happy.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement,in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.

The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

The weak fear happiness itself.

People are always setting conditions for happiness... I love life without condition.