What Is Happiness Quotes

If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.

If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

I'm trying to, with my stand-up and with the podcast, give people these little stupid things to give them happiness. I know that sounds lofty or like I'm starting a cult, but I kind of feel that way.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness.

The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist

You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far.

You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state.

The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.

Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

So you have to take the good with the bad.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers, in minds that are contented with simple living.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

I don't feel like myself unless I run. It's how I deal with sadness and happiness. I need it. It's like therapy.

We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is 'knowing what your uterus looks like'.

Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.

All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.

Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

If there is some aspect of creation you find you do not enjoy, bless it and simply change it. Choose again. Call forth a new reality. Think a new thought. Say a new word. Do a new thing.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Your eyes smile peace.

No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Family is the center of life. It is the key to eternal happiness.

End your day with a smile, a happy thought, and a grateful heart.

A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.