1000 Best Happiness Quotes

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others. Henry Drummond

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. Baltasar Gracian

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. Hosea Ballou

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus

Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest soldiers, whose happiness it is to think that, at a less smiling moment, he had the honor to be adopted by America, and whose blood, exertions, and affections will in her good times, as they have been in her worst, be entirely at her service. Marquis de Lafayette

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt

I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day - and I truly believe this - it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don't bring happiness, ultimately. Leonardo DiCaprio

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. Joseph Addison

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile. Jennifer Garner

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. Booth Tarkington

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind. Annie Besant

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. George Sand

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. Baruch Spinoza

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? Leslie Caron

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. Miguel de Unamuno

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle. Nicki Minaj

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Frank Norris

Happiness is a direction, not a place. Sydney J. Harris

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness. Rod Parsley

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. Maria Montessori

To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. Stefan Sagmeister

At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness. Holly Holm

People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next. Chuck Norris

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. William Morris

I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.' Cherie Lunghi

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. Spike Milligan

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live. Sidney Sheldon

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness. Shah Rukh Khan

If I can bring happiness to people all around the world, then I will try my best to do so. Tom Holland

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. Euripides

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. Bernard Meltzer

To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole. Jefferson Davis

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. Napoleon Hill

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. David Brainerd

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. Robert Green Ingersoll

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. Henry David Thoreau

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. Epictetus

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness. Lynn Coady

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. Herman Hesse

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. D. H. Lawrence

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. Groucho Marx

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness. Queen Victoria

Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself. Maeve Binchy

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. Louis D. Brandeis

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. Henri Frederic Amiel

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Storm Jameson

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally. Cesare Beccaria

For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being. Rakul Preet Singh

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings. Kenichi Fukui

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. Clara Schumann

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness. Marie Osmond

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. Patricia Heaton

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. Virginia Woolf

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. William J. H. Boetcker

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. Bertrand Russell

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. J. Donald Walters

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people. Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. Thomas Szasz

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Viktor E. Frankl

While experienceing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. Nikos Kazantzakis

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness. Martin Seligman

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. Joseph Addison

Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development. Kim Jong-un

Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life. Maria Montessori

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell


As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive. Bharati Mukherjee

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. Doug Larson

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow. Frank McCourt

Happiness, as a word, has become sort of equated with these smiling images on television, selling some nice cream or food product or something. It's seen a bit as being a stupid consumer. Helena Norberg-Hodge

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness. Thomas Traherne

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. Henry Van Dyke

Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places. Milton Berle

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. Charles Baudelaire

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. Joseph Wood Krutch

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired. Sergey Brin

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. Robert Green Ingersoll

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream. Steven Pinker

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite. Jamaica Kincaid

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river. Zhuangzi

Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness. Lesley Ann Warren

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too. Gretchen Rubin

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment. Dada Vaswani

Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in your life. Lilly Singh

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. Milan Kundera

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. Henri Matisse

People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it? Agnes Martin

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery. Niger Innis

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Michael J. Fox

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. Leon Kass

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness. Muhammad Yunus

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice. Beyonce Knowles

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. Samuel Johnson

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy. Shah Rukh Khan

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. Thornton Wilder

Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else. Wendy Raquel Robinson

I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage. Patrick deWitt

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends. Clayton M. Christensen

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success. Shawn Achor

There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do have to make some changes in your behavior, but there is absolutely no need for you to give them power over your happiness. Srikumar Rao

Make space in your life, space for health and happiness. Kris Carr

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. Helen Keller

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. John Dryden

My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money. Kesha

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket. Robert Orben

I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary. Iggy Azalea

Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform. Marina Abramovic

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules. Aimee Mullins

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. John Howe

Happiness is always a coincidence. Jose Bergamin

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. J. Donald Walters

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace. Denzel Washington

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. Arthur Ashe

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. Daniel Dennett

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. Matthew Arnold

We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would choose - freely choose - to keep His commandments and come unto His Beloved Son. They do not compel us. They cannot, for that would interfere with the plan of happiness. And so there is in us a God-given desire to be responsible for our own choices. Henry B. Eyring

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. Joan Rivers

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. Horatio Nelson

The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be. Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. Julia Roberts

If you want to be happy, be. Leo Tolstoy

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness. Cab Calloway

The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness. Vernon Howard

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. Arthur Schopenhauer

The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective. Martin Seligman

Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression. Tecumseh

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. Hermann Hesse

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. James Smithson

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. Frederick Douglass

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. Red Skelton

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children. Guy Laliberte

Independence is happiness. Susan B. Anthony

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. Mary Oliver

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.' Les Dawson

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy. Richard Branson

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. David Lee Roth

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. Joseph Addison

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. Dalai Lama

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself. Herman Hesse

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity. Rollo May

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime! Lawrence G. Lovasik

It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others. Karen Salmansohn

Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can't ever let that stop us. We can't ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life. Jon Huntsman, Sr.

Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life. Brad Pitt

Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom. Scott Adams

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God. Said Nursi

If you can ensure happiness and public order, the country will go ahead well, just like what all Thais want. Bhumibol Adulyadej

I am living my dream because I get to work with my kids and watch them find their happiness. It's so rewarding - we brainstorm around a conference table and have a really great time doing it. Kris Jenner

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness. Daniel Kahneman

If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem. Jorge Bucay

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. Horace

Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success! Rachele Brooke Smith

If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it. Evita Peron

Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God. Dayananda Saraswati

We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete. Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time. Daniel Kahneman

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. Jane Porter

For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness. Marianne Williamson

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. George Orwell

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. Heraclitus

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle. Nicki Minaj

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there. Billy Graham

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. Thomas Jefferson

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell

Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself. Andy Grammer

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. Jose Marti

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness. Percy Ross

The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled. Eliza Doolittle

Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great objects for which it was instituted, leaving the States to contend in generous rivalry to develop, by the arts of peace, their respective resources, and a scene of prosperity and happiness would follow, heretofore unequaled on the globe. John C. Calhoun

If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success. Zig Ziglar

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. Kin Hubbard

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. Alastair Campbell

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness. Lucinda Williams

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. Hermann Hesse

As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus. Ioan Gruffudd

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life. Agnes Martin

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. Norman Vincent Peale

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience. Debbi Fields

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. Julia Ward Howe

To describe happiness is to diminish it. Stendhal

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. Sam Levenson

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Clare Boothe Luce

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right. Helen Keller

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. Maxwell Maltz

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. Yevgeny Yevtushenko

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. Immanuel Kant

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. Langston Hughes

The happiness of society is the end of government. John Adams

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. Aristotle

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. Princess Diana

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. Thomas Paine

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. Bertrand Russell

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. Dante Alighieri

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence. Alice Walker

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. Ben Jonson

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others. Indira Gandhi

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. Thomas Huxley

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Ambrose Bierce

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. Leo Tolstoy

I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland. Islom Karimov

Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button. Geoff Mulgan

If my son came to me years from now and told me, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'That's wonderful. I'm so glad you know who you are.' But if he said, 'I want to be a woman,' I would say, 'Ahhh. This is gonna be hard. Let's get started.' Because it doesn't matter that that's where happiness lies - it's on the other side of a lot of struggle. Vivienne Ming

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool. John Mason Good

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within. David Lynch

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa

I'm trying to find a little joy and happiness, a lot of giggles - and maybe some pretty shoes. Tracee Ellis Ross

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. Bob Hope

When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again. Richard Rohr

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. Marquis de Sade

Happiness for me is the people whom you love, love you back. Jorge Ramos

It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life. Edwin Markham


Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. Hafez

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do. Martin Seligman

Happiness is an inside job. William Arthur Ward

When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed. Joyce Carol Oates

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. Robert Herrick

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness. Jean-Paul Marat

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. Alexander Alekhine

In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity. David A. Bednar

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way. Isabelle Eberhardt

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown

Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others. Jay Parini

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. Sarah McLachlan

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. William S. Burroughs

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. Ogden Nash

Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with. Ranbir Kapoor

Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom. Thomas Jane

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business. Dolley Madison

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. William Butler Yeats

There is absolutely nothing in this world that will provide more comfort and happiness than a testimony of the truth. Thomas S. Monson

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. Napoleon Hill

Why would you want to dictate somebody else's taste or happiness? Music is supposed to be joyful and move people, and however that gets accomplished for different people, it's all good. Chris Stapleton

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! Oliver Goldsmith

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity. Martin Seligman

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. Alice Walker

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous. Tony Hawk

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley

In the beginning, before the creation of Heaven and Earth, God made the angels; free intelligences and free wills; out of His love He made them, that they might be eternally happy. And that their happiness might be complete, He gave them the perfection of a created nature; that is, He gave them freedom. Sabine Baring-Gould

I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me. Harry Dean Stanton

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. Jonathan Edwards

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values. Thomas S. Monson

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else. Alphonse Karr

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. George Bernard Shaw

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. Daisaku Ikeda

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Gilbert K. Chesterton

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming. Linda Evans

On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long! Chandler Massey

We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself. Mother Angelica

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. Richard Bach

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. Alfred de Musset

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. Albert Camus

God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the army! I have for long been convinced that, to safeguard the country and give happiness to the people, it is necessary first of all to prove once more to the world that our army is still the old Turkish army. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. Henry Ford

I believe happiness is a choice. Some days it is a very difficult choice. Steve Gleason

The groundwork of all happiness is health. Leigh Hunt

Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does pay for therapy. Travis Kalanick

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever. Peabo Bryson

The gospel is a message of peace. Christianity is a system which, received and obeyed, would spread peace, harmony, and happiness throughout the earth. Ellen G. White

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being. Marina Abramovic

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress. Lillie Langtry

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others. Bar Refaeli

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it. Elizabeth Wurtzel

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you. Eugenio Montale

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches. Joseph Franklin Rutherford

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't. Tom Ford

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them. Frederic Chopin


The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it. Daniel Gilbert

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind. Philo

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. George Bernard Shaw

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. Jacques Prevert

I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation. William Clay Ford, Jr.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist. Hal Sparks

It is an amazing feature in the French character that they will let themselves be led away so easily by bad counsels and yet return again so quickly. It is certain that as these people have, out of their misery, treated us so well, we are the more bound to work for their happiness. Marie Antoinette

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. Nana Mouskouri

While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Alveda King

We can go through our five senses in about a minute's time to become grounded in the present; and we can do this anytime we find ourselves in worry or speculation. Becoming grounded in our present makes us available to happiness. Jeff Kober

From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In the affection and confidence of the people, I am proud to say, I have a great share. Marquis de Lafayette

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God's great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life! Russell M. Nelson

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. Euripides

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness. Aeschylus

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. Mary Baker Eddy

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves. David Letterman

My mantra is: Let there be happiness in my soul, and let me share it with the world. Alexandra Stoddard

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult. Albert Camus

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world. Lana Del Rey

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is. Michael J. Fox

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Daphne du Maurier

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness. Lupe Fiasco

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it. Lupita Nyong'o

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. Thich Nhat Hanh

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness. Herbert Hoover

I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately. Karan Johar

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Ursula K. Le Guin

The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions. Kelsang Gyatso

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it. Epicurus

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people. Al Sharpton

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness. John C. Maxwell

Happiness is making your dreams come true. Jourdan Dunn

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it. Charisma Carpenter

The eternal God - the infinite Jehovah - has done all he could do - even to the sacrificing his own Son - to provide a way for man's happiness, and yet they reject him, hate him, and laugh him to scorn! Elijah Parish Lovejoy

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. Franz Schubert

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites. Diana Ross

You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness. Jada Pinkett Smith

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. Maurice Sendak

Being a mum makes you more aware of how short life is and how important it is to enjoy every minute because you have less time for yourself. A day doesn't have 24 hours any more - it only lasts 10, or eight. So you learn to get rid of all the parasites. I'm not talking about people, but things that could be toxic for happiness. Ludivine Sagnier

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that! Ludwig van Beethoven

He who avoids complaint invites happiness. Abu Bakr

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. William E. Gladstone

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy. Polly Toynbee

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. Walter Savage Landor

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy. Deepak Chopra

Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world. Shawn Achor

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. John W. Gardner

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. Helen Keller

'Unicorn Island' is the synonym for my happy place. It's a really beautiful message: that happiness is one of the hardest things you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for. Lilly Singh

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. Charles Sumner

You'd think true masculinity was just calm and collected happiness. So alpha male that it needs not or worries not. But typically masculine characters are always fighting, and most violence comes from some agitated level of fear and anxiety. Liev Schreiber

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static. Patrick Kavanagh

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. Hannah Arendt

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. Josh Billings

The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected. William Hall

Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace. Beth Ditto

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful. Tyga

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it. Nikos Kazantzakis

To buy happiness is to sell soul. Douglas Horton

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. Baruch Spinoza

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you. Aron Ralston

To me, flowers are happiness. Stefano Gabbana

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. Benjamin Spock

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time. John Belushi

America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure. Virginia Postrel

One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness. Ezra Taft Benson


During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!' Marquis de Lafayette

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life. Karisma Kapoor

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning. Martin Seligman

The best feeling in the world for me is when my parents say they are proud of me; I just want to give them all the happiness that they deserve. Tiger Shroff

I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on. Carrie Underwood

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. John Dewey

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. Viktor E. Frankl

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. Bernard Meltzer

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on. Carrie Underwood

I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup. Drew Barrymore

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. Daniel Boone

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. Arthur Schopenhauer

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! Freddie Mercury

I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness. Katrina Kaif

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness. Matthew Stewart

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. Honore de Balzac

It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there. Karen Finerman

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father. Barry Sanders

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. Thomas Jefferson

I have been very fortunate in my life. I have had a lot of happiness. I have a great family and I work a lot, and that's what I like to do. Danny DeVito

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. Brandon Boyd

Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness. Caitlyn Jenner

Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy. Shawn Achor

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization. Louis D. Brandeis

One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life. Vanilla Ice

Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being. D. B. Weiss

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. Christian Nestell Bovee

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury. Thomas Moore

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. Joel Osteen

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. Lord Byron

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. Dale Carnegie

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. Plato

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year. Polly Toynbee

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion. Richard Gere

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions. Saul Bellow

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got. Garth Brooks

I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see. Michael Franti

I think I feel most like a princess when I'm sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whether that would be, like, with my boyfriend or my family or at a really fun party - just when you're full of life. Lily James

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin. Aeschylus

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. Gustave Flaubert

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. Kevyn Aucoin

The secret of happiness is something to do. John Burroughs

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. Charles Caleb Colton

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything. Norman Lear

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. Richard Bach

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness. Ric Ocasek

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world. Adoniram Judson

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? Albert Einstein

In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness. Gretchen Rubin

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy. Fanny Burney

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing. Paulo Coelho

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity. Ezra Taft Benson

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Albert Schweitzer

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life. Eleonora Duse

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. Coretta Scott King

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle. George Burns

'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness. Taissa Farmiga

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. Benjamin Franklin

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. William Cowper

Now you know my credo: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. And let me add to that from our Founding Fathers: Our Creator endowed us with the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, freedom. Lawrence Kudlow

Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't. Yaya DaCosta

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls. Horatio Alger

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. Paulo Coelho

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. Carl Sandburg

Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life. Chandra Wilson

Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness. Elsa Schiaparelli

Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift. Ellen DeGeneres

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. William Ellery Channing

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. Thucydides

You can be happy where you are. Joel Osteen


When you care about people's happiness and productivity, you give them what brings out the best in them and their creativity. And if you give them a choice, they'll say, 'I want an iPhone,' or 'I want a Mac.' We think we can win a lot of corporate decisions at that level. Tim Cook

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it. Curtis Mayfield

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. Audrey Hepburn

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. Pierre de Coubertin

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Tom Waits

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. Ernest Hemingway

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude. Bruce Cameron

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. Sophocles

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. Adam Smith

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy. Paul Sweeney

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. Ashley Montagu

Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are. Sabrina Carpenter

Martial arts is what pulled me through tough times, and it is one of the reasons for my happiness. Tiger Shroff

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. William Dean Howells

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. Maurice Maeterlinck

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Emile M. Cioran

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind. William Godwin

I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always. Kylie Jenner

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. Martha Washington

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness. Susan Cain

The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends. Clayton Christensen

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future. Eckhart Tolle

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness. Ramana Maharshi

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. Nick Cave

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men. Joseph Franklin Rutherford

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness. Tracy Kidder

Joys divided are increased. Josiah Gilbert Holland

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. Oswald Chambers

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating. Frederick Delius

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. Charles Morgan

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. Elsa Schiaparelli

Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound. David Lynch

It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness. Jules Verne

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. Lydia M. Child

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose. John Stossel

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. George Eliot

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. William James

There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city. Bjorn Ulvaeus

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. William Lyon Phelps

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day. Paul Thomas Anderson

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy. Gary Vaynerchuk

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so. Clayton Christensen

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. Nicole Kidman

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. Samuel Johnson

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. James Allen

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. Alphonse Karr

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life. Suze Orman

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. Herman Hesse

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose. Karl Ove Knausgaard

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. Bette Davis

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens. Andy Rooney

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness. Dalai Lama

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours. James E. Faust

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. Thomas Aquinas

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness. Ruth Reichl

When ambition ends, happiness begins. Thomas Merton

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. Jeremy Bentham

I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it. Brene Brown

I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best. Wilbur Smith

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. Theodore Isaac Rubin

The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick. P. T. Barnum

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. Brad Garrett

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment. Alexandra Stoddard

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody. Jeffrey Tambor

Your typical business just measures the metrics that have to do with the profitability of the business one way or another. But you can have metrics that measure employee happiness and the morale. You can also do direct customer surveys; you can track it over time. You can do supplier satisfaction scores as well. John Mackey

There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body. Douglas Fairbanks

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated. Charles M. Schwab

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are. Dale Archer


Love is trembling happiness. Khalil Gibran

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. Wayne Gretzky

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. Bryant H. McGill

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Confucius

We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come. Baha'u'llah

Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path. Richard Branson

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change. Friedrich Schiller

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning. Ben Carson

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. John Mason Brown

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. Mortimer Adler

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. Don Marquis

My beauty ethos? Well, I'd love to tell you it's something like 'less is more,' but honestly, it all starts with happiness. If only someone could bottle that up - when I'm happy, I'm at my most radiant and glowing. It does me better than any product ever could. And I stand by how cheesy and cliched that sounds. Solange Knowles

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. Arnold Bennett

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things. Hugh Laurie

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. Samuel Johnson

With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally. Jules Verne

People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn't matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment. Jamie Campbell Bower

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. Zhuangzi

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. Gertrude Jekyll

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up. Mary Oliver

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all. Russell M. Nelson

Happiness is no laughing matter. Richard Whately

The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift. Ginger Rogers

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. Richard Bach

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself. Richard Eyre

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. Rosalia de Castro

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. Leo Rosten

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo

I've never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people's lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies. Richard Branson

I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus. Nina Hagen

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity. Robert Trout

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. F. H. Bradley

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. Laura Schlessinger

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance. Patrick Duffy

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. Elbert Hubbard

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. John Stuart Mill

You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel. Jennifer Aniston

An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences. Shreya Ghoshal

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain! Frederick William Faber

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul. George A. Smith

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. William Beveridge

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity. David A. Bednar

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music. Janet Jackson

Happiness is the longing for repetition. Milan Kundera

In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality. Tsai Ing-wen

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. Blaise Pascal

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. Ernest Dimnet

Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know. Eric Ripert

Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness. Marquis de Lafayette

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. John Dewey

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. Winifred Holtby

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life. Hugh Walpole

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Aristotle

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome. Nhat Hanh

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. Johnny Carson

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. George Sand


Happiness lies first of all in health. George William Curtis

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. Bertolt Brecht

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. Leo Buscaglia

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. Anthony Hopkins

Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses. Emily Oster

Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems. Karen Salmansohn

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is! Dita Von Teese

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. Marquis de Sade

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that. David Duchovny

Anyone who starts piercing the bubble of happiness, get 'em out of your life. Robert Kraft

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected. Maeve Binchy

In the gigantic and worthwhile struggle for achieving the country's prosperity and people's happiness, our young people have been educated in a revolutionary way and trained spiritually and physically, and have developed into a large, matchless contingent forming a thousand-fold, tens-of-thousand-fold fortress around the Party. Kim Jong-un

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live. Bertha von Suttner

I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness. Princess Margaret

Happiness seems made to be shared. Pierre Corneille

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection. William H. Seward

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness. Emile Zola

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. Mark Twain

The suburbs have this veneer of happiness, you know? This veneer of the ideal life. From afar, it's all together - white picket fence, nice house - but you peel away one little layer, and it all comes crumbling down. Jason Jones

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. Marguerite Gardiner

If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter. Ezra Taft Benson

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. Chanakya

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. James E. Faust

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. Adam Weishaupt

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. C. S. Lewis

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. Anna Pavlova

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that. Elvis Costello

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. John Ruskin

I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome. Helen McCrory

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? Adam Smith

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. Adrian Grenier

Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude. Chip Conley

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup. Estelle

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. Jane Austen

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider. Gretchen Rubin

Michael has a connection with children, just like Mickey Mouse does, and he brings happiness to them, and joy. Jermaine Jackson

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. Sigmund Freud

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something. Janis Joplin

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. Chanakya

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. Bertrand Russell

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. Kanye West

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. Soren Kierkegaard

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. Karl Marx

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people. Anwar Sadat

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The most simple things can bring the most happiness. Izabella Scorupco

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. Suze Orman

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? C. S. Lewis

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. Robert Staughton Lynd

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. Julia Roberts

I find happiness comes from numerous sources in my life. Most often, the happy moments I cherish most are quiet moments with my wife and family back home in Nova Scotia. Peter MacKay

The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment. Marie Kondo

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful. Christina Milian

I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. Albert Schweitzer

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. Louise Hart

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. James E. Faust

I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose. Arizona Muse

The mission of my company is to bring three things to the world through entertainment: joy, happiness, and change. We must believe our precious time is being used to make a product worth more than anything else we could be doing. Charlie Ebersol

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have. Emily Blunt

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. Bill Vaughan

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. Quentin Crisp

Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability. Kehlani

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being. Red Skelton

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. Divyanka Tripathi

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. Henry Van Dyke

Happiness is very simple and minimal. Tablo

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. Lysander Spooner

I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness. Sung Kang

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. W. H. Auden

If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness. Pico Iyer

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. Saint Augustine

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. Iris Murdoch

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration. Alanis Morissette

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life. Tobey Maguire

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. Pablo Picasso

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. Andrei Platonov

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read. Michael A. Stackpole

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. August Strindberg

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. Fyodor Dostoevsky


There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way. Thich Nhat Hanh

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. Benjamin Franklin

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness. Nicki Minaj

The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. Emanuel Swedenborg

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. John Harrigan

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. John Gunther

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. Liberty Hyde Bailey

Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness. Karen Salmansohn

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. Ogden Nash

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. Douglas Horton

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness. Kathryn Minshew

I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. Paulo Coelho

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves. Ethel Percy Andrus

Of course, the most important factor of all for long life is a good family. When a person goes home with the wife or the kids giving him endless headaches, then it's hard for that person to enjoy a long life. I am very fortunate, because my wife Elizabeth and my obedient children are very good; they have given me happiness. John Gokongwei

My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret. Tina Turner

Never mind your happiness; do your duty. Peter Drucker

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not. Valerie Bertinelli

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. Samuel Johnson

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. Michael Novak

The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work and that of His Father and our Father is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of the children of God. And Satan, the enemy of our happiness, opposes those who serve the Lord. Henry B. Eyring

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. Ambrose Bierce

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you. Prem Rawat

The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque. Sai Baba

Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people. Orison Swett Marden

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. Fyodor Dostoevsky

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. Joseph Butler

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. Maria Mitchell

'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness. John de Mol, Jr.

In my long life I have found peace, joy, and happiness beyond my fondest hopes and dreams. One of the supreme benedictions of my life has been my marriage to an elect daughter of God. I love her with all my heart and soul. James E. Faust

I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food. James D. Watson

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power. William Wilberforce

It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness. Herbie Hancock

I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. Elie Wiesel

Money can't buy happiness. Howard Hughes

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits. Anna Pavlova

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. Bo Derek

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp. Robert Baden-Powell

Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport. Andrea Hirata

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. Bertrand Russell

There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it. Claire Forlani

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. Hosea Ballou

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. Lord Byron

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce

Happiness is only real when shared. Christopher McCandless

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. Taylor Swift

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. Barbara De Angelis

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. Dag Hammarskjold

No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting. Emily Oster

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long? Frederic Chopin

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. George Sand

Too many people limit their happiness and success by assuming that taking time off from work will send a negative message to their manager and slow their career advancement. Shawn Achor

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Alphonse de Lamartine

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness. Nhat Hanh

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. Swami Sivananda

True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature. Tara Brach

Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness. James Stephens

I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind. John Paul Jones

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. Willa Cather

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period. Suge Knight

Being charitable provides a boost to your psyche that is tough to replicate in any other way. But note that although any charity will happily take your money, you can give in other ways and still reap the same happiness reward. Volunteering and donating your old or unused belongings have the same result. Jean Chatzky

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it. Diane Lane

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. William E. Gladstone

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. George Santayana

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. Arthur Schopenhauer

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time. Keke Palmer

Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness. Shawn Achor

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson

Though I have drawn my sword in the present generous struggle for the rights of men, yet I am not in arms as an American, nor am I in pursuit of riches. My fortune is liberal enough, having no wife nor family, and having lived long enough to know that riches cannot ensure happiness. John Paul Jones


It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. Thor Heyerdahl

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. Ingrid Bergman

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. Maurice Chevalier

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness. David Sarnoff

The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind. Bobby Davro

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. James Madison

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. Tryon Edwards

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. Charles Caleb Colton

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Red Skelton

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. Andre Maurois

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. Irving Babbitt

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers. Josephine Baker

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love. Marla Gibbs

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. Aldous Huxley

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.' Sandra Bullock

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. K. D. Lang

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. Oscar Levant

The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights. Mike Crapo

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. Deepak Chopra

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. Albert Camus

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. Austin O'Malley

Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process. George Takei

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine. Donatella Versace

If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth. Guilherme Leal

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. Hugo Black

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. Gary Larson

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have. Tom Wilson

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. Sophocles

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. Samuel Johnson

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time. Artie Lange

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. Plutarch

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it. Eric Idle

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. Ovid

I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn't really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life. Dennis Christopher

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy. Andrew Weil

Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness. Nicholas A. Christakis

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. Linus Pauling

I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields. Queen Latifah

Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness. Saina Nehwal

I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony. Ethan Canin

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you. Taraji P. Henson

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. John Burroughs

I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness. Sonam Kapoor

The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. Robert A. Heinlein

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Chuck Palahniuk

I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it. Shahid Kapoor

I think happiness is love. Vladimir Putin

Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I'd go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace. Suzanne Weyn

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. Benjamin Franklin

We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion. Herbie Hancock

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. Clara Barton

Happiness needs one-upmanship. Zygmunt Bauman

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. Nhat Hanh

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. Dave Grohl

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark

A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness. Ellen DeGeneres

The Creator of the seas, sands, and endless stars is reaching out to you this very day! He is offering the grand recipe for happiness, peace, and eternal life! Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. W. Somerset Maugham

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. Benjamin Disraeli

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy. Luise Rainer

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it. Thich Nhat Hanh

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness. Ted Nugent

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. Bertrand Russell

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. Paul Ryan

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. F. Scott Fitzgerald

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. Malcolm Forbes

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that. Gisele Bundchen

What I think is so amazing about having everything, and feeling like I have everything, is that I don't really find happiness within materialistic things. Like, it's cool if I can buy myself a new car, and I think it's amazing for a week, but then the thrill is over, and I'm like, 'Oh, so I guess that wasn't really happiness.' Kylie Jenner

The moral and political principles that govern men are derived from three sources: revelation, natural law, and the artificial conventions of society. With regard to its main purpose, there is no comparison between the first and the others; but all three are alike in that they all lead towards happiness in this mortal life. Cesare Beccaria

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. Douglas William Jerrold

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect. Adam Clarke

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . Dale Carnegie

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. Martha Washington

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. Dale Carnegie

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public. Henry Knox

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. Jimmy Carter

It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator. Tom Stoppard

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. Ayn Rand

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. J. Donald Walters

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. Sigmund Freud

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. Andre Maurois

All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness. H. P. Lovecraft


Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. Ausonius

I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization. Sushant Singh Rajput

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Epictetus

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? Chuck Palahniuk

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. William S. Burroughs

For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom. Sushant Singh Rajput

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life. Daniel Kahneman

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money. Henny Youngman

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter. Yoko Ono

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. Robert Green Ingersoll

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. James K. Polk

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. Maxwell Maltz

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. Bertrand Russell

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. Robert Baden-Powell

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Phillips Brooks

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. Denis Diderot

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more. Thich Nhat Hanh

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer

My dear compatriots, I'm not interested in your race, your origin, your sexual orientation. What interests me is your happiness. Marine Le Pen

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. Salinger

No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace. Richard Simmons

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. Charlie Chaplin

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. Maurice Sendak

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie

To forget oneself is to be happy. Robert Louis Stevenson

I love acting. It's my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind. Chris Evans

There are going to be priorities and multiple dimensions of your life, and how you integrate that is how you find happiness. Denise Morrison

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. Greg Anderson

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease. Nelson Mandela

Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward. K. Flay

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life. Martha Beck

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. Swami Sivananda

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. John Barrymore

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. Marcel Proust

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky. Mel Gibson

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable. Janet Jackson

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness. Sheryl Sandberg

It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything. Pharrell Williams

I get way too much happiness from good food. Elizabeth Olsen

It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later. George Foreman

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. Anton Chekhov

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mill

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon

Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky - this is happiness. Truly happiness. Lee Hyeon-seo

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. Alexandre Dumas

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness. Ellen G. White

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress. Alana Stewart

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. John Stuart Mill

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. Bil Keane

I really believe that being flexible and grateful contributes a lot to your happiness, which contributes to your health and contributes to your look. Christie Brinkley

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. George Orwell

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. Samuel Chase

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. Samuel Johnson

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Ayn Rand

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. Bryant H. McGill

In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ. Ann Voskamp

Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. Robert Baden-Powell

'Sunrise Sunset' is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness. Benny Cassette

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness. Islom Karimov

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. Anatole France

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy. Dada Vaswani

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. Chanakya

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose. Jon Krakauer

I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them. Meryl Davis

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. William Ralph Inge

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. Maxim Gorky

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. Pearl S. Buck

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it. Emma Thompson

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. Charles de Montesquieu

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog. Anne Lamott

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. Richard Bach

My personal life is a source of incredible happiness for me, but it's personal, and it's not for me to hock or shop around to the highest bidder. Matt Bomer

Happiness is perhaps painlessness, a state one rarely appreciates. Happiness, then, is very much like a great talent. It rarely gets appreciated and is taken for granted. Kamal Haasan

I didn't grow up vegan or vegetarian. I grew up with junk food! And because of the way I ate before changing my diet, I can truly understand the challenges of making changes and stepping away from foods that provided a form of comfort and happiness growing up, but finding out that most of what I loved was really bad for me! Kim Barnouin

Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it. Ellen Key

Love to Jesus is a sure title to the greatest possible happiness; for Jesus is omnipotent and has determined to make his friends happy, and surely will not forget a single one in whose heart is enkindled one spark of love. Adoniram Judson

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. Harry Harrison

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. Mahatma Gandhi

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Victor Hugo

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Henry Ward Beecher

You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy. Common

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me. Vivien Leigh

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life. Christie Brinkley

Desire is individual. Happiness is common. Julian Casablancas

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. Aldous Huxley


I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today. Tom Ford

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. Havelock Ellis

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. Plato

To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever. Amy Bloom

I know nothing worth the living for but usefulness and the service of my fellow-creatures. The only object I pursue is to increase, as far as lies in my power, the quantity of their knowledge and goodness and happiness. William Godwin

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness does not consist in self-love. Joseph Butler

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so. Jose Marti

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others. Paramahansa Yogananda

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy. Parker Palmer

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Henry Drummond

Beauty is the promise of happiness. Edmund Burke

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. Kin Hubbard

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. Scott Weiss

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. Joseph Roux

The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension. Steven Biko

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality. Sam Harris

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God. Frederick William Faber

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto. Karen Finerman

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations. Omar Bongo

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. Joseph Roux

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it. Daniel Gilbert

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality. James Salter

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. Dale Carnegie

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. Helen Gurley Brown

In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that. George Harrison

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. Pierre Corneille

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. Desiderius Erasmus

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experienceing happiness, enthusiasm or love. Bo Bennett

It's all about balance, and I have so much happiness in my career and am fortunate to travel the world and see so many amazing things - it will also be nice to be anchored to something grounded and in the same place. Raising a family will be a wonderful part of that. Meghan Markle

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually. Martin Seligman

When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit. Martin Scorsese

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late. Frank Sinatra

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. George Washington

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. Andre Gide

Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies. Ezra Taft Benson

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. Martha Washington

One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency. Orison Swett Marden

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. Dionne Warwick

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps. Sharon Draper

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. Conor Oberst

Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith. Kareena Kapoor Khan

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. Jacques Yves Cousteau

Low expectations is the key to happiness in life. Christopher Miller

I try to be a good daughter, as I believe in karma and feel that how you are with your parents is directly proportionate to what you receive in your life. I am a big oneness follower, and our gurus have told us that if you want to achieve external happiness, you need to be happy internally. And your inner circle is your family. Shilpa Shetty

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards. Samuel Adams

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. John Lubbock

The right to happiness is fundamental. Anna Pavlova

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. Harold Kushner

Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those. Penn Jillette

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. Aeschylus

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. George Santayana

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. Khalil Gibran

The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can. Loretta Swit

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. Dennis Prager

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. Benjamin Franklin

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose. Tom Wilson

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. Brene Brown

Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle

I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy. Thalia

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time. Zoe Saldana

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. Anita Baker

To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be too prayerfully treated. Our happiness, our usefulness, our living for God or for ourselves afterwards, are often most intimately connected with our choice. Therefore, in the most prayerful manner, this choice should be made. George Muller

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. Denis Waitley

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. Ernie Banks

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. Francis Bacon

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. Martha Washington

For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful. Ken Kercheval

The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success. Adam Grant

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. William Feather

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns

If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women. Tom Cotton

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap. William Bennett

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. Debra Messing

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. Jeremy Bentham

Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace. David Lynch

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. Maurice Maeterlinck

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. Agnes Repplier