Happiness Quotes

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

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.

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.

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.