Happiness Quotes
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...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.
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I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.
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Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.
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A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions.
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Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.
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Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
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Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
