What Is Happiness Quotes

There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.

O kindle the fire of happiness ! Therein I shall see The door of friendliness, The room of greatness And the palace of godness. I shall see, I shall see.

Of all the gifts You have offered to God, Your happiness-gift He treasures most.

Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without.

There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.

Love is the best part of life

Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.

Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found.

It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

Happiness is a choice. Choose to be happy.

My vision is to inspire others to find purpose and happiness.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

I have never been one of those who cares about happiness. Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms.

Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

Power is not happiness.

Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

Happiness is like a kiss, in order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else.

One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

Our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness.

Money can't buy happiness, unless you're favorite hooker's name is 'Happiness'.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

I'll say it again, for every moment you're with the wrong person, you are robbing yourself and the right person of the opportunity to find real happiness.

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

Love and happiness is a great match.

The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.

The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.

Happiness is a choice; not just a matter of genes or good luck.

Find happiness by enjoying the journey, not by awaiting the destination.

That is truth. In that truth, there is real happiness. And there is nothing that could disturb that happiness.

The more you strive and search for happiness, the more you overlook the possibility that it is here already.

I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.

It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

We can't choose our lives, but we can decide what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.