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Happiness Quotes


"The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity."


"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die."


"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."


"Happiness comes easier when I'm thinking of you."


"And on the endless dusty ribbon of the highway, on sunken roads vaulted over by branches, on paths between stands of grain that rose to his knees, the sun on his shoulders and the morning air in his nostrils, his heart full of the night's bliss, his spirit at peace and his flesh content, he would ride on his way ruminating his happiness, like someone who keeps savoring, hours later, the fragrance of the truffles he has eaten for dinner."


"Happiness is a hot bath on a Sunday afternoon."


"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him."



"I've learned to feel good when I feel good.it's better to be driven around in a red porschethan to ownone. the luck of the fool is inviolate."


"Three more words. Be happy. Persevere."


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


"An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness."


"It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it."


"The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do."


"I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it."


"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."


"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."


"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are."


"Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose."


"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."


"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy."


"You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves."


"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."


"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords."
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