Happiness Quotes

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

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

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

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.

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.