Happiness Quotes

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.

Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

Happiness is the best cosmetic.

If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

If you want to feel more comfortable and happy, work on making the people around you more comfortable and happy.

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.

If you can achieve action, you will achieve happiness.

The way to happiness is much, much easier to travel with people one can trust.

The way to happiness is a high-speed road to those who know where the edges are.

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.

I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

Sadness is poetic. You're lucky to live sad moments. When you let yourself be sad, your body has antibodies. It has happiness that comes rushing in to meet the sadness.

You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

The gospel teaches us that true beauty is more than skin-deep. A young woman whose countenance is aglow with both happiness and virtue radiates inner beauty.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness

Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.

Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work.

work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.

the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

True happiness for me is playing a concert in Blink-182, and then hanging out with my friends and my wife and son, and going out for Mexican food.

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost.

If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.

God's favour is happiness.

Discipline is the path to happiness.

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

Sunny days give us happiness; stormy days give us wisdom.

Happiness and joy are inner qualities that can't be shaken by outer circumstances because they are inherent within the core Self.