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Happiness Quotes



"Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless."


"Be in love with your life. Every minute of it."


"For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else's face."


"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."


"Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity."


"When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you."


"The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can."


"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."


"Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections."


"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."


"You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me."


"I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny."


"According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek."


"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."


"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."


"Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier."


"There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it."


"Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed."


"Happiness often relies on one character trait: self-discipline."


"The light within us dances when we smile."


"Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it."


"The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness."


"90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness."


"I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination."


"Barley porridge, or a crust of barley bread, and water do not make a very cheerful diet, but nothing gives one keener pleasure than having the ability to derive pleasure even from that-- and the feeling of having arrived at something which one cannot be deprived of by any unjust stroke of fortune."


"The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers."


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