What Is Happiness Quotes

Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

The short way to happiness is through kindness and sensitivity.

The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.

Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.

Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

Happiness is seeing the muscular lifeguard all the girls were admiring leave the beach hand in hand with another muscular lifeguard.

One smile relieves a heart that grieves.

HAPPINESS is ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.

Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again.

The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.

Christianity doesn't offer a smooth flight; it provides a safe landing. The promise of Jesus is not one of happiness, He promises righteousness.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

People who live the most fulfilling lives are the ones who are always rejoicing at what they have.

Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

The will of man is his happiness.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.