Happiness Quotes

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

The only people who are truly happy are the people we do not know very well.

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.

You choose happiness. You don't wait for it to choose you.

How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

Your suffering is my suffering and your happiness is my happiness.

To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

It's time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.

Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but know how to use her benefits.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.

Happiness need not be analyzed.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

One day's happiness often predicts the next day's creativity.

What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.

This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.

With love one can live even without happiness.

we both smile and we are conspirators.

The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

I've found the secret of happiness, total disregard of everybody.

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

Really Love itself is the extract of the whole Knowledge, it is written that in last synthesis the Wisdom can be reduced into Love, and the Love into Happiness.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We leave our place where we belong—close to his heart.

You have to learn to laugh all the time. It's a practice of life. It's a practice of happiness.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.