Happiness Quotes
-
Do at least one thing every day that brings you joy and happiness.
Katrina Mayer
-
Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.
Sarah Orne Jewett
-
Everyone has their own reasons. Suffering and happiness aren't things that you can compare.
Bisco Hatori
-
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
George Bernard Shaw
-
We are the architects of our own happiness.
Gerald Causse
-
I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.
John Prine
-
Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.
Georg Ebers
-
When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy;but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappines, of other? I’d do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happines. That’s what’s at the heart of my music.
Nino Rota
-
Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.
Helen Keller
-
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is
William Butler Yeats
-
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux
-
Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.
David Leonhardt
-
God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.
Eugene Delacroix
-
Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.
Arthur Schopenhauer
-
Kindnessis giving others happiness. Compassionis removing others' bitterness. Joyis freeing others from suffering.
Gautama Buddha
-
The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
-
If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.
Nathaniel Cotton
-
For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'
Fyodor Dostoevsky
-
What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
Jane Austen
-
Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
Epictetus
-
There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
John Calvin
-
One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.
Zicheng Hong
-
Happiness is making your dreams come true.
Jourdan Dunn
-
I just love to play rock and roll. I love to write songs all the time about what's up on these streets. I write songs about people getting killed; I write songs about people getting beaten up; I write songsabout people getting taken to jail by the police; and I also write songs about love and happiness.
Wesley Willis