Happiness Quotes

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Happiness cannot come from hatred or anger. Nobody can say, 'Today I am happy because this morning I was angry.' On the contrary, people feel uneasy and sad and say, 'Today I am not very happy, because I lost my temper this morning.'

Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.

When you arrive where you thought you wanted to be, you'll just begin a new journey so enjoy each step along the way

In a word, if this country can steer clear of European politics, stand firm on its bottom, and be wise and temperate in its government, it bids fair to be one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world.

Our business is to be happy.

Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying peace, health, and love.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

The key to happiness was achievable dreams.

Please stop waiting for a better and more appropriate time to become happy and focus on the moment you live in. Happiness is not an arrival, it is the journey itself. Many people seek for happiness above the height of human beings, some below. Yet, happiness is exactly at the exact height of human beings.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

Happiness is a warm gun.

We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live.

Be grateful more than anything in your life. If you have to put a priority on something, put a priority on what your thankful for and the people in your life that you're grateful for.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Stop looking to everyone else to make you happy and start finding ways that you can make other people happy.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

The pleasure is our choice.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

Nothing has to happen for me to feel good! I feel good because I'm alive! Life is a gift, and I revel in it.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

No sky is heavy if the heart be light

It is not your role to make others happy, it is your role to keep yourself in balance. When you pay attention to how you feel and practice self-empowering thoughts that align with who you really are, you will offer an example of thriving that will be of tremendous value to those who have the benefit of observing you.

I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

You cannot struggle to joy. Struggle and joy are not on the same channel. You joy your way to joy. You laugh your way to success. It is through your joy that good things come.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.

Being in love, I find myself smiling for no reason at all.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.

I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others.

Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally.

We feel fortunate [with Canada hockey team]. We have got a lot of guys who love to play, but they also love to win even more. We are pretty happy. Although we are young, we like our group of players.

Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'