Happiness quotes

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.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

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.

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.

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.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

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

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

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

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

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

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

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

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

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

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

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

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

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

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

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.

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

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

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

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

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.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

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.

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

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

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

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.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony, periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

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

Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.

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.