Happiness Quotes

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.