Happiness Quotes

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

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've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.