Happiness Quotes

Real happiness lies within you.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

Happiness is the precursor to success.

The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.

I just love listening to the laughter.

As soon as you recognize that you are able to control your thoughts, happiness will come within your reach.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.

We can continue our quest for improvement or not. We can search for happiness, enlightenment, security or identity or not. The search is not wrong; it is unrelated to the actual world.

We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha. Life is joyous. Life is Light. Life is happy. You are awake at last.

We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.

Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.

Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it is almost within the grasp.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.

There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Economics spreads happiness.

The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness... happiness is when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.

Happy Wednesday! Happiness is found from within when you learn to appreciate your blessings, LIVE in the present and LOVE!

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it, and use it.

My life and happiness speaks for itself.

I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.