Happiness Quotes

Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.

Rise up this mornin', Smile with the risin' sun.

Happiness is often somewhere near us, not in the far places!

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with

To find happiness, it is not quite difficult thing. It is just enough to distinguish the blue of the sky from the pink of peach flowers which are opening out.

Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.

If you smile things will work out.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.

When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness

One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.

Don't just aim high, reach it and grab some happiness along the way.

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

It's funny how you realize what's important, and it's not fame and money, even though it can be really nice. It's happiness and whatever it takes to make you feel happy.

If God came in and said, I want you to be happy for the rest of your life, what would you do?

We smile, because this is how we save the world.

Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.

Happiness is a choice I am making now. Once we understand that and find love consciousness, we learn that this place of internal plenitude needs nothing.

Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full.

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.

...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.

Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive . and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a non-supportive root such as fear, anger or the need to 'prove' yourself, your money will never bring you happiness.