What Is Happiness Quotes

Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.

We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.

Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.

If you dont see me on tour, its because I have found happiness away from winning, and that might be the biggest achievement I could ever accomplish.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Wanting ... is something 'having' cannot cure.

Your happiness depends on you alone.

Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a placid ecstasy, and ease of heart, that are like honey on the tongue.

I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.

Temperance in everything is requisite for happiness.

The lesson which wars and depressions have taught is that if we want peace, prosperity and happiness at home we must help to establish them abroad.

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

If your words do not have a smile, if you do not talk heart to heart, and you decide everything with your head, it is better to keep a dog as a friend rather than you.

Sometimes people think if someone has depression, that person must be a broken Mormon. We believe that righteousness is happiness, but what happens when people are righteous and they're not happy?

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at.

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure.

True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.

Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.

Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.

Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth, and happiness.

Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.

A flow of happiness and abundance will manifest when you have reached the deepest level of yourSelf.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.