Happiness Quotes

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.