Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Human mind has way too many shades. It would be so boring if this world was all sugar and gloss, just happy, colourful lives. People singing songs is not always the reality. Just like happiness and love, people also feel wrath, jealousy and vengeance!

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

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.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

If you want to be happy, be.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Happiness is an inside job.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.