Happiness Quotes

Fear is the mortal enemy of creativity, innovation, and happiness.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

Don't be fooled by your emptiness, there's so much more room for happiness.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.

Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.

Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

A whole new kind of spiritual happiness dawns in us as we realize that dark clouds do not ruin sunny skies... they merely pass through them to help us remember our love of the light.

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.

Life isn't about wishing you were somewhere, or someone that you're not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are and consistently improving both.

What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

The trouble with happiness is people don't practice it.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

The truth is, that I feel alone most of the time. I stopped believing in happiness, but I know that music makes me feel good.

Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it.

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.

really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other.

This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

Lowering your standards is the key to happiness.

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

Remember: success does not lead to happiness - it's the other way around. Greater happiness is what leads to greater success.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

Your happiness depends upon your very own thoughts. No one else can think your thoughts for you. Deliberately think thoughts of what you want because they're the thoughts that make you happy.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.

Happiness is what you choose to remember.

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.

What, exactly, is the happiness that can be earned by turning away from reality?

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

Happiness cannot help but dance around you when you are fulfilled.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.