Happiness Quotes

Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want.

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement

If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra.

If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.

Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.

To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.

The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

If you're respectful by habit, constantly honoring the worthy, four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

Happiness is a house without a telephone.

Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

Happiness goes like the wind, but what is interesting stays.

There is no greater method for experiencing peace of mind and happiness than to understand and meditate on Emptiness.

And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

Every people should persue happiness in their own way.

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

If you are happy, happiness will come to you because happiness wants to go where happiness is.

From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets people feel the blessings, the virtues, and the happiness.

The secret is this. You make your own happiness.

Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity for it.

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.

Happiness is love, nothing else.

So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood (Riza Hawkeye -- Fullmetal Alchemist)

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

If you want to be healthy study health... if you want to be wealthy, study wealth... if you want to be happy, study happiness.

The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with...greater joy, peace, and happiness.

Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different- something bigger or perhaps more dramatic.