Happiness Quotes

Our economy is based upon people wanting more; their happiness on wanting less.

Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.

Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.

Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us.

The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.

Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.

The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.

Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.

Find things that make you feel still, that make you feel good.

Happiness is found principally in meditation.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

The more you retrain yourself to choose happiness over fear, the more blissful you will be.

Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

Happiness never decreased by being shared.

Everyday happiness means you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

So maybe that's what the difference is, is that when you intend to be happy, then you figure out ways to sustain your happiness or your ability to feel moments of joy in your life.

Tremendous happiness and peace of mind are the results of loving service to others. Nobody can live fully and happily who lives only unto himself or herself.

Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.

If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand.

Happiness is a smile of comfort to the sorrowful.

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Money cannot buy you happiness, and happiness cannot buy you money. That might be a wise crack, but I doubt it.

[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets

Without realizing who you are, happiness cannot come to you.

Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.

Happiness requires problems

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.

The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

Be happy. Talk happiness.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

My greatest skill has been to want but little.

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.

John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.

A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.