Happiness Quotes

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!

You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

Even in Siberia there is happiness.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.

A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

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

When something goes wrong, smile, cause there's always a next play.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.

Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.

A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

You do this, you do that You argue left, you argue right You come down, you go up This person says no, you say yes Back and forth You are happy You are really happy

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind.