What Is Happiness Quotes

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.

Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry or concern about even the next moment of time.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

There's no money back guarantee on future happiness.

It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

Tell everyone you know: “My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook.

I do not know when it was, nor where it was, nor how young I may have been, but I can recall. . . a sudden feeling of happiness at hearing the voice of the pines.

Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.

Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you are, how aware of your eternal part you are.

Happiness is not the same as pleasure. Pleasure is an immediate experience, very transient in nature, that's enjoyable, and if we experience a great deal of it - there's a sense of satiation.

Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.

The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

All the happiness, self-confidence, and support you're seeking is already within you.

Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.

When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.

The older I get the more I realize that a significant portion of a parent's happiness or sadness in middle-age will be directly impacted by how closely our children are walking with the Lord.

All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.

If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.

Appearances have very little to do with happiness.

The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.

A child regards your cheery smile as evidence that you are on his side, so he relaxes and is happier.

We are the architects of our own happiness

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

One of Buddhism’s main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

That's what life is for, to find that joy in yourself.

The greatest thing that will please God is that you maintain an attitude of unshakable joy.

Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy.

Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth.

I grew up near Disneyland, and my brother's an animator, so I was always really inspired by bright, cartoony colors and that whole feeling of happiness.

Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.

The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.

Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

The art of happiness is to serve all, and all shall serve you.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

Those who possess adequate spiritual and mental resources will meet the heartaches or the happiness of each day with courage, calmness and capacity.