Happiness Quotes

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

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.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

To me, flowers are happiness.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

The will of man is his happiness.

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.