Happiness Quotes

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

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.

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.

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.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

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

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

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

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

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

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.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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

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

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.

Happiness is an inside job.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you want to be happy, be.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

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

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

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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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