Happiness Quotes

Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.

What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?

Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy.

The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one. -Kenshin to Eiji

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground

Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away.

A life without a cause is a life without effect.

The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.

The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.

The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.

The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together.

Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.

I've got what my mother's got - however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.

Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

‎Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness you send out for it.

Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.

Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.

Nothing outside of ourselves will ever make us happy, because happiness is an inside-out experience.

There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain.

Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to.

This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

Happiness is not in things; happiness is in you.

Joy waits on welcome, not time.

Committing to happiness increases your chances for success.

If you do not decide to be happy, very few people can make you happy. If you decide to be happy, very few people can make you unhappy.

No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created!

You have a Happiness Switch in you that you can switch on at any time. All you have to do is stop switching it off in order to blackmail yourself or others.

Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it.

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.