What Is Happiness Quotes

Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

Happiness is the most important thing.

Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's.

One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

[Slogan of her 'Trouble Bureau' for needy artists and musicians:] Happiness is a change of trouble.

A treasure of memories is a very special happiness.

Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same.

I consider myself a martial artist and an actor. They can work together or individually. I love to do action. I love having a good role in which I can act and fight. Thats double happiness.

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

Love and happiness remind me of sticky peanut butter. When you spread them around, you can't help but end up getting some on yourself!

True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment.

Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

Happiness is the art of relaxation.

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Even my husband is happier when I'm happy. He has always said, "You figure out what you want to do," because he's discovered that personal happiness is connected to everything.

Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.

Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.

Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.

Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.

Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy.

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.

I feel like any other Brazilian citizen, I have a lot of happiness in me. I thank God for showing me the path to follow.

Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy.

First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.

In our lives, we have good things and bad things, happiness and pain.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.

If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

And smile, you know I always tell the girls to smile because I hate sad faces.

Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.

The smile of God is the goal of your life.

It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.

It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time.

Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?