Happiness Quotes
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Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.
Anne Bronte -
Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but what happens inside of you.
Harold B. Lee
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You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.
Cyrus the Great -
And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.
Hermann Hesse -
No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.
Marianne Williamson -
My only intention is that they live without fear of me, that they may trust me and that I may give them happiness, not sorrow. Furthermore, they should understand that the king will forgive those who can be forgiven, and that he wishes to encourage them to practice Dhamma so that they may attain happiness in this world and the next.
Ashoka -
Don't stay watching happiness, make it.
Nicki Minaj -
Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well
E. Merrill Root
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The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.
Marianne Williamson -
Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.
Sigmund Freud -
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
Dalai Lama -
We can achieve happiness only then when we have a beauty; and we have a beauty thanks to philosophy. The truth is that only because of philosophy we can achieve happiness.
Al-Farabi -
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
Julia Roberts
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If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
Willem de Kooning -
Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
Helen Keller -
We possess within us a force of incalculable power, which if we direct it in a conscious and wise manner, gives us the mastery of ourselves and allows us not only to escape from physical and mental ills, but also to live in relative happiness.
Emile Coue -
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.
Willa Cather -
I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
William Clay Ford, Jr. -
Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.
Brian Tracy
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Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.
Eric Gill -
Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.
John Tillotson -
This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.
Elizabeth Scott -
Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.
Fyodor Dostoevsky