Happiness Quotes

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.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

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.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.