Happiness Quotes

I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.

Happiness is not the result of circumstance. It is the result of loving others.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we’re depriving them of happiness as adults?

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go.

Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.

My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

Put your attention on happiness by practicing the Happiness Habits each day.

Bring happiness to your everyday experiences rather than try to extract happiness from them and however life looks, you'll be happy.

Like your weight set-point, which keeps the scale hovering around the same number, your happiness set-point will remain the same unless you make a concerted effort to change it.

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.

The key to happiness is the decision to be happy

God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.

The universe is conspiring at this moment to bring you happiness and peace.

In spite of everything life is not without hope.

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood, it is not permanent. It comes and goes and if people thought that way then maybe people would find happiness more often.

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

The genteel is a mighty catafalque of service-with-a-smile and flattering solicitude smothering every spontaneous movement of thought or feeling.

Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.

I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.

Happiness is realizing your dreams.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

Smile creates love and peace; love and peace create smile.

Happiness is the peace of mind that comes from feeling that I am living a worthy life in the company of people I love and in the service of something bigger than myself.

Good character is more important than wealth, good looks, popularity and even education. These things do not guarantee happiness and often they become obstacles to developing good character.

Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

Inner success is the ongoing experience of love, happiness, fulfillment and well-being - the experience of joy in your everyday life.

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.

Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.

If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.

Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.

Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.

A smile and a laugh are the duct tape of life; they can fix anything.

Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.