Happiness Quotes
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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
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I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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When we have learned how to listen to trees, then the brevity and the quickness and the childlike hastiness of our thoughts achieve an incomparable joy. Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.
Hermann Hesse
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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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Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?
Charles Dickens
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux
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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
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The day of individual happiness has passed.
Adolf Hitler
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When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
Joyce Brothers
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To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.
John Tillotson
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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
Honore de Balzac
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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
Boyd K. Packer
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A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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... we can no longer afford to throw away even one 'unimportant' day by not noticing the wonder of it all. We have to be willing to discover and then appreciate the authentic moments of happiness available to all of us every day.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.
Coco Chanel
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.
Sophocles
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If my son came to me years from now and told me, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'That's wonderful. I'm so glad you know who you are.' But if he said, 'I want to be a woman,' I would say, 'Ahhh. This is gonna be hard. Let's get started.' Because it doesn't matter that that's where happiness lies - it's on the other side of a lot of struggle.
Vivienne Ming
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
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When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?
Oprah Winfrey
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The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you.
Oprah Winfrey
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Happiness has a very short half-life.
Tim Ferriss
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Arthur Helps