What Is Happiness Quotes

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness

Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

Gratitude is pure happiness. Happiness is sure perfection.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

You must choose between your attachments and happiness.

Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.

But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through life propelled by a commitment.

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

When you first start to practice positive thinking, tell no one, go to it realistically, stop dwelling on your difficulties, your sorrows. Radiate the happiness you reall want in your life.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.

Happy he With such a mother! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho' he trip and fall, He shall not blind his soul with clay.

Happiness, laughter and joy abound, when friends, family, and lovers are around.

Hats are like a halo of happiness.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

Freemasonry is an establishment founded on the benevolent intention of extending and conferring mutual happiness upon the best and truest principles of moral life and social virtue.

A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

Smile pretty and watch your back

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

A bright smile has the strongest electrifying power to lift up the sagging morale and light up a depressed face effortlessly and immediately.

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

Happiness is a sort of action.

Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.