Quotes About Happiness

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens is that we want to give love and we receive love.

Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

The things which… are esteemed as the greatest good of all… can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

Soy tan feliz, que a veces paréceme que vivo suspendida en el aire, que mis pies no tocan la tierra, que huelo la eternidad y respiro el airecillo que sopla más allá del sol. No duermo. ¡Ni qué falta me hace dormir!

Vamos—dijo el viajero lleno de gozo—, humanidad tenemos.

Gracias a Dios!, al fin salió esa loca.

Se aman por rutina, y apenas se dan cuenta de su felicidad

Los ciegos serían felices en este país, que para la lengua es paraíso y para los ojos infierno.

Qué sientes tú cuando estás alegre? —¿Cuándo estoy libre, contigo, solos los dos en el campo? —Sí. —Pues siento que me nace dentro del pecho una frescura, una suavidad dulce... —¡Ahí te quiero ver! ¡Madre de Dios! Pues ya sabes cómo brilla el sol.

Dime que te gustará esta vida oscura y deliciosa; que amarás esta paz campestre; que aquí te curarás de las locas efervescencias que tuban tu espíritu, y que anhelas ser una feliz y robusta villana, ricachona en medio de la sencillez y la abundancia, teniendo por maridillo al más chiflado de los artistas, al más espiritual habitante de esta tierra de luz, fecundidad y poesía.

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.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. en.path-2-happiness.com

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

If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

A little house well filled, a little field well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.

When men are employed, they are best contented; for on the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day's work, they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

Avarice and happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted.

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

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."