Happiness Quotes

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.