Happiness Quotes
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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 two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
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The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.
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The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
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The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.
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If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.
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If you pursue happiness you never find it.
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No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.
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Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,' said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam's gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driven away by some loved voice or hand. Sam felt that he could sit like that in endless happiness.
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Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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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 never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living.
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Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
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Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
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I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
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But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people - first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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Happiness is very simple and minimal.
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The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.
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Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.
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The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
