Happiness Quotes
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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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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
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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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Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness.
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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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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.
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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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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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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
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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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There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.
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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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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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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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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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Happiness is an inside job.
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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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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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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.
