Happiness Quotes

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

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

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.