Happiness Quotes

• If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word of honor is God in man."

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Character
  • Trust

• I think one of the things we have in this modern, individualistic age is a recognition that happiness can look very different for very different people. Happiness is not necessarily about how much money you make, happiness isn't necessarily about these aspects of your life.

  

  Ben Domenech
  • Life
  • Money
  • Happiness

• As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment.

  

  Edgar Saltus
  • Health
  • Pleasure
  • Illness

• So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

  

  Rick Derringer
  • Great
  • Happiness
  • Awhile

• Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good-adding value to the world.

  

  Barbara Fredrickson
  • Value
  • Happiness
  • Satisfaction

• I grew up near Disneyland, and my brother's an animator, so I was always really inspired by bright, cartoony colors and that whole feeling of happiness.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Happiness
  • Disneyland
  • Animator

• If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Happy
  • Successful
  • Ifs

• Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Joys
  • Thank God
  • Influences

• The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Happiness
  • Foundation
  • Extent

• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Work
  • Labour
  • Blessedness

• Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.

  

  Joyce Meyer
  • Happiness
  • Choice

• Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Happiness
  • Paradise
  • Serpent

• Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Happiness
  • Fortune
  • Hostage

• Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Perfect
  • Memory
  • Common

• Joy attracts more joy. Happiness attracts more happiness. Peace attracts more peace. GRATITUDE attracts more GRATITUDE. Kindness attracts more kindness. Love attracts more love. Your job is an inside one. To change your world, all you have to do is change the way you feel inside. How easy is that?

  

  Rhonda Byrne
  • Happy
  • Positive
  • inspirational

• The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.

  

  Al-Ghazali
  • Happiness
  • River
  • Drop

• When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

  

  Joyce Brothers
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happiness

• A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual states-of-being, into a way of true power and wisdom. The Heart-center power, expressed as happiness and love, will guide us upward on a path away from frustration, bitter toil and travail. These journeys are directed inward, not outwardly in material mementos of ego and possession. The lesson is relearning that which has been suppressed and forgotten, in ourselves, since our earliest childhood.

  

  R. Carlos Nakai
  • Journey
  • Birth
  • Destination

• 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.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Inner Peace

• Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Happiness
  • Despair
  • Magical Power

• What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Joy

• Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

  

  Epictetus
  • Happiness
  • Independent
  • Authentic

• You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • World
  • Truth
  • Bad

• Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Happiness
  • Patience
  • Foolish

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