Happiness Quotes
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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.
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Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.
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To learn that happiness is what brings success, and not the other.
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Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.
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He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.
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I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.
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Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
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The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
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I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
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All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.
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The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. This brought an entirely new answer to the question, 'Why should I do this or that?' It used to be, 'Because self-instituted authority command you.' The answer now was, 'Because it is good for men.' In this lies our greatest debt to the Renaissance, that it instituted the welfare of men as the end of all action.
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All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right of mankind to the produce of their labor and the pursuit of happiness.
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Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to impart its glow to their shriveled hearts.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
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The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.
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Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.
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People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.
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One day it dawned on her that life was not going to happen some time in the future. She realized that her happiness was right here and now.
