Happiness Quotes

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness.

The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile.

Laughter and happiness is what life should be about, that’s your remedy for everything.

Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.

We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.

Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.

Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.

Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Happiness is the sense that one matters. Happiness is an abiding enthusiasm. Happiness is single-mindedness. Happiness is whole-heartedness. Happiness is a by-product. Happiness is faith.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.

Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

Lasting happiness starts with one question...what can I celebrate?

Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy.