Happiness Quotes
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
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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.
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The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.
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Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.
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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
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You're always on your way somewhere. The key is: find a way to be happy wherever you now are on your way to where you really want to be. (We're speaking of the state of being you want.) It does not matter where you are; where you are is shifting constantly - but you must turn your attention to where you want to go. And that's the difference between making the best of something and making the worst of something.
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Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which is the only thing capable of providing lasting peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others and it is based on love and affection.
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You can't buy happiness.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
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The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
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If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.
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Happiness is a choice—a choice to be joyful, no matter what the circumstance.
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The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.
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Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.
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It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.
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We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.
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Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
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Happiness, however, is not the result of any one single cause. It is the result of many ideal states of being grouped together into one harmonious whole.
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness has obviously never been inside a bookstore.
