What Is Happiness Quotes

Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy.

Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

He wants you to smile and smell sweet and be his lady love. He wants to hear you recite all your pretty little words the way the septa taught you. He wants you to love him... and fear him.

Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

The internet kind of feels like happiness sometimes, however. It feels like stimulation.

Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles.

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .

To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.

Happiness is a rare cosmetic.

This life is made to change all reality. We are here for the benefit, happiness, and welfare of a new reality; a new direction.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

Love you all the time, 'cause when I close my eyes, I still can see your smile, it's bright enough to light my life

You will find peace and happiness if you will live the gospel.

When the strong help the weak, it makes us all stronger

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

Feel that you are happy without any cause for happiness.

To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.

Learn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary.

The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

I love connecting with kids. I love connecting with children of all ages to keep their imagination active because that's the key to happiness and imagination and creativity.

Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

God created man to share friendship with Him and share in His happiness.

Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.

The way to health, harmony, and happiness is primarily mental.

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn’t-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.

Think about what kind of person you are and shape your habits, and your happiness, to show what's true about you instead of thinking that you can just import the right answer from the outside.

Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.

I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.

Happiness is hard because it's very subjective. I know the people that seem happiest to me, but whether they are actually - what they're really like inside is really hard to say.

I draw inspiration from everything. I draw a lot from love, from hate, from anger, from happiness

Do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.

being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have.

Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.

No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

Every single one of us already has everything we need to be the happiest person on earth; it's simply up to us to remember that in every moment.

I try to remind myself that nothing is permanent. The chaos and the stress of life won't last forever. Eventually, it will go away and I will once again be left with nothing but happiness.

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.

Appreciation is an art and a lifestyle and a source of happiness and fulfillment. It's called gratitude-an attitude of gratitude.