Happiness Quotes
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When you express your gratitude, you will bring joy to others lives.When others know joy, your life will be filled with happiness.
Arthur Dobrin
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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.
Jane Austen
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True happiness springs from moderation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness – people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.
William Faulkner
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
George William Curtis
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There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
Wallace Stegner
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Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.
Blake Mycoskie
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I believe happiness is a choice. Some days it is a very difficult choice.
Steve Gleason
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How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?
Anthony Malcolm Daniels
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People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.
Melissa Bank
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Happiness is no laughing matter.
Richard Whately
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Rather happiness, peace or serenity is our natural state. Beneath all of what we add to our feelings and experience, beneath our self-contraction, lies serenity Itself.
Charles L. Whitfield
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As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
Anthony Trollope
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As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
Andrew Delbanco
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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward
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The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
George Eliot
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... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Don't put off joy and happiness. Strive to live each day to its fullest, squeezing all the joy you can out of each moment. Instead of measuring your life's value by your progress toward a single goal, remember that the direction you're headed in is more important than temporary results.
Anthony Robbins
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We are today engaged in a war. It is an economic war over our sovereignty as human beings with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The “pursuit of happiness” means the right to create wealth through our labor and to enjoy the fruits thereof. The battle now is over who has the moral, the ethical, and the legal right to the fruits of our labor. Are we to be free, or are we to be slaves? Just whose money is it anyway?
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Mrs. Colquhoun was being amiable because she thought Catherine was down and out, and Mrs. Colquhoun was what she was, hard, severe, critical, grudging of happiness, kind to failure so long as it remained failure, simply because there wasn’t a soul in the whole world who really loved her. A devoted husband would have done much to bring out her original goodness; a very devoted husband would have done everything.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth
Carole L. Glickfeld
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Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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The key to happiness is achievable dreams.
Nicholas Sparks