Happiness Quotes
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When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
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Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
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Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness.
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are; it solely relies on how you think.
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Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
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Happiness is the reward of virtue.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
