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Happiness Quotes


"So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity."


"Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine."


"Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens."


"I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness."


"Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work."


"What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."



"The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies."


"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves."



"The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness."


"Michael nodded tersely, eyeing a table across the room. It was empty. So empty. So joyfully, blessedly empty.He could picture himself a very happy man at that table."Not feeling very conversational this evening, are we?" Colin asked, breaking into his (admittedly tame) fantasies."


"Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat."



"Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude."


"Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony."



"The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number."


"It's okay, I tell her."It is okay to be happy."


"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness."



"I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world."


"Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have."


"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"


"The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency."


"With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue."



"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."


"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."


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