What Is Happiness Quotes

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy.

I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.

People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.

Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.

Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

I'd rather have happiness than money.

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

The happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get it, you see it is not the thing you wanted.

Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Even though I felt like crying, I did my very best to smile.

He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, acid, bricks, anything, and smile each time

... have a smile for everyone you meet and a plan to kill them.

Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

All happiness depends on courage and work.

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

We are all happy if we but knew it.

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy.

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

What matters most is that we learn from living.