Happiness Quotes
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Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
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Happiness is unrepented pleasure.
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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.
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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
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Happiness, like anger, is also a habit. You learn to be happy one day at a time. But habits change hard.
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.
