Happiness Quotes

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

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!

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

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

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

It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Love is trembling happiness.

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.