Happiness Quotes
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Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.
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Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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My children and their happiness have always been my greatest concern.
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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.
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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
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When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
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Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
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Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
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What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
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Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.
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The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
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An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.
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I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.
