Happiness Quotes

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

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

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Money cannot buy happiness.

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

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.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

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.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

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

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.