Happiness Quotes

To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.

Real happiness in life comes from the mental capacity to adapt to any situation.

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

Real happiness is not dependent on external things.

Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.

Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.

Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you.

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

Happiness too is inevitable.

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

Happiness is the only thing one should ever be resigned to.

A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.

She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.

Being happy is not the only happiness.

Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

To learn that happiness is what brings success, and not the other

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.

True happiness comes from the realization that God has already made available everything we will ever need.

The point of sloths is to bring a sense of wonder, magic, and happiness to all other species. Did you know that every other animal's favorite animal is the sloth?

Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.

So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.

Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that made one smile, then.

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.

Where there's more of singing and less of sighing, Where there's more of giving and less of buying, And a man makes friends without half trying That's where the West begins.

When you express your gratitude, you will bring joy to others lives.When others know joy, your life will be filled with happiness.

With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.

Believing, desiring, deciding, and choosing correctly are the simple actions that define an increase in happiness and an increase in the inner assurance that transcends this life.

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

The man who pursues happiness wisely will aim at the possession of a number of subsidiary interests in addition to those central ones upon which his life is built.

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.