Happiness Quotes

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

Happiness is a tiger in your tank and a pussycat in your back seat.

I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

Happiness is the best facelift.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut

Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.

Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.

Make happiness a habit. Be so happy you drive the devil stark-raving mad.

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail.

You should be able to have happiness. If you don't have that, then you're not really bringing your whole self to the relationship.

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.

You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.

When we smile, the world smiles with us: each experience of joy is an experience of joy for all people and a victory for human kind.

Happiness does not come from the things that we have but the abandoning of things that we cling to, by letting go of the attachments to things we don't want.

I must repay the gratitude given by pretties.. I want to give even more happiness that I have received all these while

What love it to me...is his happiness. I'm not like you where I fall in love so I can be happy. All I need is for him to be smiling.

I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.

You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

I am capable, confident, intelligent, resilient and in charge. Health and happiness are my birthrights and I accept with gratitude.

There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.

The way to happiness requires that one set a good example for others.

Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth.

Some of us are seeking happiness where it is and as a result are becoming happier. And others are seeking it blindly in the world where it is not and are becoming more frustrated.

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.