Happiness Quotes

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is best.

If you smile, even if you’re feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you’re happy

The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their own soul.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Don't go for happiness, go for truth!

Happiness is like water. We’re always trying to grab onto it, but it’s always slipping between our fingers

Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

Behind every smile there's teeth.

Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

Not only is your own happiness and welfare related to others, but the more you help them, the happier you will be.

It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.

We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness

I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means might appear different the ends are the same.

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

Warm-heartedne ss and concern for others’ well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not.

Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.

Happiness comes through taming the mind; without taming the mind there is no way to be happy

We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.

Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.

Happiness is the highest form of health.

If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.

Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.

There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness

Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.

Happiness comes from holiness. You can't truly be happy unless you're hungry for Jesus Christ.

The first condition of happiness is a clear conscience.

When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.