Happiness Quotes

Happiness is only real when shared.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

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.

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

Independence is happiness.

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Happiness is no respecter of persons.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.