top of page
.png){kind=small}
Happiness Quotes
"The happiness of society is the end of government."
55
"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
55
"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
51
"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."
51
"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
51
"Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all."
50
"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour."
50
"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."
49
"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."
49
"Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it."
48
"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."
48
"I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world."
47
"Learn to be happy with yourself first, then happiness will follow you everywhere."
47
"He who avoids complaint invites happiness."
47
"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"
47
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
47
"When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness."
47
"It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy."
46
"If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it."
46
"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."
46
"The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself."
46
"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
46
"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."
45
"Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all."
45
"Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you're ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk and time to sack out in it and he's as happy as a worm in an apple - asleep."
45
"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit."
45
"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."
44
"The light within us dances when we smile."
44
bottom of page