Happiness Quotes

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

Happiness is such a fleeting point of view - there's no such thing as continual happiness.

It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

Oh, this happiness is strong stuff.

And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.

Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.

Happiness is more important than money any day.

Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

As I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.

HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.

The addability of the happiness of different subjects is a postulum without which all political reasonings are at a stand

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment.

We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.

Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.

This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.

Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less

Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.

'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.