Happiness Quotes

The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

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.

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

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.

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.