What Is Happiness Quotes

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.

Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you’re a rich man….

The day of individual happiness has passed.

Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!

Smile at each other. Smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other- it doesn't matter who it is- and that will help to grow up in greater love for each other.

The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.

The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.

Laughter drives shouting away.

Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire.

You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

You can't say you're happy either. You don't even smile for me.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.

There is no happiness finally, there is no peace, there is no joy except we be right with God. The miserable Christian is wrong in his ideas as to how this rightness with God is to be obtained.

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla? Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to, and not feel ashamed of it.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

There is one aspect of happiness that's been well studied, and it's the notion of flow. Ask yourselves, when for you does time stop? When are you truly at home, wanting to be no place else?

Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.

Little deeds of kindness Little words of love; Help to make earth an Eden Like the heaven above.

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.

The fastest way to your own happiness is to make another happy.

When you're happy for no reason, you're unconditionally happy. It's not that your life always looks perfect - it's just that however it looks, you'll still be happy.