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Quotes About Happiness

Wise conduct is the key to happiness. Always rule by gods and reverence them. Those who overbear will be brought to grief. Fate will flail them on its winnowing floor And in due season teach them to be wise.
~ Seamus Heaney
He might as well Be dead, for when you lose your happiness, I always say, you lose your life. You can dwell in state, have all the trappings of success and style, But if you can't enjoy them in your heart, What does it mean? If your joy in life's destroyed, You're left with a mirage. Shadows and ash.
~ Seamus Heaney translation
When we want something to be true, when a belief makes us happy—that's precisely when we should be questioning. Illusions can be pleasant, but the rewards of truth are enormously greater.
~ Sean Carroll
Be kind, be loving, be generous. Give of yourself, give of your time and you'll be free. It's the oldest secret, the one thats most often forgotten - and that is to have fun through giving.
~ Frederick Lenz
Each time you meditate, you create a stronger connection with the world of inner light and happiness that exists within you.
~ Frederick Lenz
The happy man does not notice the flight of time.
~ Friedrich Schiller
[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.
~ Itay Talgam
Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.
~ James Whitcomb Riley
comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else, practically but at the same time, it doesn't get a lot of respect. that's the sacrifice you make to do it.
~ Jim Carrey
If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.
~ John Wooden
Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.
~ Josef Pieper
"Someday I'm going to marry someone like my mom and I'll be smiling all the time the way my Mom and Dad are.
~ Koushun Takami
All my shows is about a party. We party from the door then we get into the gig, get back to the middle then we gonna party at the end. It's all a good time.
~ Kurupt
For the first time I feel really free.
~ Latif Yahia
I'm just trying to enjoy my moment, and I would like to enjoy it for a long time.
~ Lorena Ochoa
I like hanging around people who knit. They are usually in a good mood. People who are staring into their iPhones *and* demanding your attention at the same time are not as much fun to be around.
~ Mark Frauenfelder
That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
~ Ned Vizzini
I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.
~ Nicole Kidman
I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Time is a need of the miserable mind. Time is a creation of misery. If you are happy there is no time - time disappears.
~ Rajneesh
Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.
~ Richard Powers
If you're not really having a good time, it's not worth it.
~ Kyle Chandler
I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.
~ Carson Kressley
We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, you might as well stay home. I feel real good.
~ Sterling Marlin