What Is Happiness Quotes

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

Learn how to feel joy.

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

Love is the only effective counter to death.

The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets.

The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.

Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person.

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen.

Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.

If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

There is no real happiness in having or getting, but only in giving.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see.

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

Integrity is about being integrated with the spiritual values of the Universe. It is also about being happy, because happiness and joy mean that you're coming into integrity with your soul.

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within.

When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing.

Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness.

I swear to god; happiness is the best makeup.

True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.

Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.

Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.

What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?

Spirit is the source of peace. It is the source of joy. It is not a duality of happiness and unhappiness, but singular joy.

Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.

The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one. -Kenshin to Eiji

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground

The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.

Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away.

Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?