Happiness Quotes

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

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

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.