What Is Happiness Quotes

The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

The master secret of happiness is to meet the challenge of each new day with the serene faith that: "All things work together for good to them that love God."

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.

Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

The happy person often walks, unshaken, along the path that a thousand unhappy people insist is wrong.

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what you like but in liking what you have to do.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.

If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.

What is too much? There is no such thing!

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

Use the freest goods for happiness... The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And yet they are all infinitely precious.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Your happiness is a gift because it literally brings out the best in you.

Happiness is present time, it has nothing to do with the future.

Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,” Wren said. “It’s the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.

All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.

Smile, breathe, go slowly.

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.

I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life.

God never sends us more than we can handle.

Money can't buy you happiness. It just helps you look for it in more places.

Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy.

Genuine happiness is hard to miss.

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.

So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!