Happiness Quotes

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.