Happiness Quotes
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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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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness.
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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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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.
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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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There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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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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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 an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
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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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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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Happiness is the reward of virtue.
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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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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
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Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.
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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!
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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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Find your happiness in yourself.
