Happiness Quotes

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.