Happiness Quotes

Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.

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

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

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

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

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

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.

To me, flowers are happiness.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

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

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

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

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.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

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

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.

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

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

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

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

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.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

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

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring?