Happiness Quotes

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

A good education is another name for happiness.

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

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.

This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people.

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.