Happiness Quotes

"I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed"

"The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth"

"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus"

"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"

"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right"

"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin"

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own"

"Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery"

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get"

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost"

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

"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"

"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"

"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them"

"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"

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

"While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure"

"There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness"

"Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness"

"Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness"

"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them"

"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"

"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"

"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing"

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

"Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable"

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

"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"

"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 happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it"

"Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness"

"Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference"

"He who avoids complaint invites happiness"

"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"

"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"

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

"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"

"To buy happiness is to sell soul"

"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good"

"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair"