What Is Happiness Quotes
Motivation is like love and happiness. It's a by-product. When you're actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.
It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness.
Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.
To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.
... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it.
It is a source of happiness to see the elderly working in their garden or looking from their windows! It is so good to see them alive and well!
The world may not care about you! Cope with this fact! Stand strong like a rock! Keep walking; the road to happiness will mysteriously appear before you!
Naturally, when life's lessons knock at the door of our life, happiness can be momentarily obscured.
In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.
I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think you can be delirious in your youth, but as you get older, things happen.
Find happiness in tribulation, too. Find it in joy alone and you could lose it, sooner or later, and be left with nothing.
Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.
Abundance is about looking at life and knowing that you have everything you need for complete happiness, and then being able to celebrate each and every moment on earth.
Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you.
If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
Do you know what our suicide rate would be if we didn't have television? Do you know how much happiness I've brought to people who couldn't get out of the house but could watch Love Boat?
You had to look at it as sales, as costumer service. Costumer's alwasy right, you know? Service with a smile. Those type of things so it's just kinda in me. In my DNA.
Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.
Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!
I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.
Happiness doesn't come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community.
People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.
Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today’s happiness I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow.
Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.
If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardour and paradoxes - than our travels.
A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.
I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.