Happiness Quotes
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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy, that's when happiness happens.
Eve Ensler
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Fostering your sense of creativity can give you feelings of freedom, delight and passion. It can help you see your life in a new light and help you to tackle situations that you thought were hopeless. When you express yourself through creative action you find gifts such as: happiness, self worth, healing, and inner joy.
Ami McKay
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But, there's like a hole world out there! Filled with mystery and awe and sorrow and happiness.
Colin Meloy
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Smile ..... Expand HappinesS.
Enrique Rocha
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Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.
Merrill Markoe
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
John Calvin
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Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.
Russell Baker
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I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.
Ethan Suplee
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Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life.
Anthony Robbins
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Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.
Sharon Stone
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Trusting fear, while fearing trust and happiness often creates a less than happy life.
Bill Crawford
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Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.
John Stuart Mill
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I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... Much... to go on to the next level. I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness or my family or the love of my life.
Summer Phoenix
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To learn that happiness is what brings success, and not the other.
Ami Vitale
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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange...
Alexandre Dumas
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Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character.
Edward Bates
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Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.
Brenda Shoshanna
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If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.
Helen Keller
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
Henrik Ibsen
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It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.
Simon Travaglia
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Happiness is a rare cosmetic.
George Whyte-Melville
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May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.
Islom Karimov
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If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
Gautama Buddha