Happiness Quotes
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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.
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I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.
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I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.
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Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories.
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The key to happiness is achievable dreams.
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
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Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them.
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What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.
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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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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
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It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
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You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?
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Happiness is a rare cosmetic.
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.
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I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me.
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Happiness just doesn't happen. You have to force yourself.
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.
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We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.
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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
