Happiness Quotes

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

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

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Success can create more madness than happiness.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

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.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.