Happiness Quotes

My life has run from misery to happiness.

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.