Happiness Quotes
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I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
William Weld
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There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile…no sound sweeter than your laughter…no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happiness. Tell me, dearest love how can you have reached so far inside my heart?
Lisa Kleypas
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Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao Tzu
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
Epictetus
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Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.
George Washington
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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
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Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with many landmarks, a life which is much subdivided when those subdivisions are not of the same kind, and when new and diverse interests, impressions, and labours follow each other in swift and distinct successions, seems the most long.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.
Alveda King
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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
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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
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A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.
Esther Duflo
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With love one can live even without happiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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
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The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves.
Brian Tracy
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
Sophocles
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To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
Georges Bernanos
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Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.
Georg Ebers
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As long as you have not set fire to everything you call yours, you are not alive. You are not here! Your happiness is not real.
Coleman Barks
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There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.
Blaise Pascal
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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard
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But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
Haruki Murakami