Happiness Quotes

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

Learn to ne happy with what you have.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.

To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.

Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.

Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

Happiness should be something which results from the creative, genuine, intense relatedness - awareness, responsiveness, to everything in life - to man, to nature.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.

Happiness is not so much a feeling as it is an attitude

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.

We shouldn't wait to be happy until we reach some future point, only to discover that happiness was already available all the time!

Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work.

Family prayer is the greatest deterrent to sin, and hence the most beneficent provider of joy and happiness. The old saying is yet true: 'The family that prays together stays together.'

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Life delights in life.

The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on.

I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.

The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.