Happiness Quotes

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

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

Money ain't everything.

One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.

There are no rules for felicity.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good heart, a warm heart, warm feelings, we will be happy and satisfied ourselves, and our friends will experience a friendly and peaceful atmosphere as well. This can be experienced community to community, country to country, continent to continent.

I don't think it's the most important thing in life to fit it. I think it's the most important thing in life to dance to the beat of your own drum and to look like you're having more fun than the people who look cool like they fit in.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

I love a life whose plot is simple.

I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look as good as I can, nipping and tucking if necessary. When you're older, you probably look more bizarre to people. But I don't care. I'm just totally convinced that it's more important that I be happy with me.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

When men are employed they are best contented.

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

I have the most wonderful children. I've been very, very blessed.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

We are all happy if we but knew it.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

I'm proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it's a sign that it's time to leave. For now though, I'm happy here at the greatest club in the world.

May this marriage be blessed.May this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey.May this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine.May this marriage be fruitful like a date tree.May this marriage be full of laughter and everyday a paradise.May this marriage be a seal of compassion for here and hereafter.May this marriage be as welcome as the full moon in the night sky.Listen lovers, now you go on, as I become silent and kiss this blessed night.

Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.

Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

I woke up this morning,Smiled at the rising sun,Three little birds,Sat on my doorstep,Singing sweet songs

It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.

It's very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.