Happiness Quotes

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.