Happiness Quotes

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.

Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have.

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

Look for happiness under your own roof.

Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?

When did a smile ever get anyone into trouble?

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

You hold in your hands the happiness of more people than you can imagine.

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.

It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.

I learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words.

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made

Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.

Believe, then, that you are a being unlimited by nature, born into flesh to materialize as best you can the great joy and spontaneity of your nature.

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American in every community has the right to pursue happiness.

God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.

Your happiness is your own responsibility.

You've gotta do things that make you happy.

I believe that happiness is something we create

Try saying this silently to everyone and everything you see for thirty days and see what happens to your own soul: I wish you happiness now and whatever will bring happiness to you in the future.

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight.

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

I believe in everything until it's disproved.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.