What Is Happiness Quotes

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.

To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.

You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.

The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the Ugly Duckling!

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

Virtue can procure only an imaginary happiness; true felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.

Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

The key to happiness is to get the spirit and keep it.

True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Happy Friday! Happiness begins with a loving heart! Open your heart and share time with those who warm your heart and make you smile!

Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't have.

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness

Happy the heart where love has come to birth.

Happiness isn't a constant. You get fleeting glimpses. You have to fight for those moments, but they make it all worth it.

For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.

Bharat for Bhutan and Bhutan for Bharat. The colour of our passports may be different but our thinking is the same. India stands committed to Bhutan's happiness and progress.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.

Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.