Happiness Quotes

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.