Happiness Quotes
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It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
Haruki Murakami
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That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
Haruki Murakami
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Every single one of us already has everything we need to be the happiest person on earth; it's simply up to us to remember that in every moment.
Hal Elrod
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Happiness eludes us if we run after it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Labor is the law of happiness.
Abel Stevens
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Happiness is something you take with you. It's not something that you find.
Katrina Mayer
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.
Marianne Williamson
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Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
Alexandre Dumas
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Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.
David Fontana
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It's such a happiness when good people get together.
Jane Austen
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Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.
Antonio Gala
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If I have to go somewhere else, a lot of things are going to have to be changed or you're going to have an unhappy player, If I'm not happy, you don't want me on your team. It's that simple. I'll make that known to anybody.
Gary Sheffield
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How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter. Sexual purity is youth's most precious possession. It is the foundation of all righteousness.
Harold B. Lee
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But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.
William Shakespeare
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For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.
Hermann Hesse
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Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?
Jennifer Donnelly
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Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
Nicholas Sparks
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Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It's escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It's one more for trying to be less. It's become like everyone else in the belief that we become as a person. It is giving appointment to happiness in the palace of chance.
Abel Bonnard
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
John Lennon The Beatles
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Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?
Julia Roberts
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We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.
Albert Camus
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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.