Happiness Quotes
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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
William James
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When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.
Deborah Levy
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I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
William James
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Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.
Claudius Claudianus
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Even in the middle of tragedy, we find moments of humor, moments of tenderness, of simple happiness.
Josh Holloway
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Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.
Newell Dwight Hillis
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Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness.
Katherine Hannigan
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I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.
Steve Kerr
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The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.
George Washington
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Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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If you dont see me on tour, its because I have found happiness away from winning, and that might be the biggest achievement I could ever accomplish.
Andy Irons
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Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.
Auguste Renoir
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A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.
Ai Yazawa
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert Spencer
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The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
Elise M. Boulding
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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
Victor Hugo
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Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
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Listen, the road to happiness is a long fucking road trip. You can't take The freeway. Back roads, buddy, that's all you got. Unpaved back roads And bad weather. Storms, baby. Don't expect to get there fast. And don't expect yourself or your car to arrive in mint condition.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.
Elise M. Boulding
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There is no key to happiness; the door is always open
Mother Teresa
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Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.
Oprah Winfrey
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The kind of happiness that I’m talking about is the ability to feel comfortable no matter what emotion arises.
Andy Puddicombe
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
Sydney Smith