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Quotes About Happiness

Money There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
~ Sophocles
Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.
~ Sophocles
There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
~ Sophocles
Please, dear God of happiness, show the radiance of your spectrum to our world, which here means to forget everything.
~ Sorin Cerin
If you combine the suffering's great color palette you will find happiness as well.
~ Sorin Cerin
You will never find the life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace; for this too is the lot of man.
~ Sorita d'Este
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
~ Spanish proverb
Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but the mind and the heart, strengthened by fasting and prayer and serious consideration, will give one a maximum chance of marital happiness.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
As we lose ourselves in service to others, we find greater spirituality and happiness.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Shared sorrow is lessened, shared joy is increased
~ Spider Robinson
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
~ Spike Milligan
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
~ Spike Milligan
Life wasn't too bad. The trouble with Man was, even while he was having a good time, he didn't appreciate it. Why, thought Milligan, this very moment might be the happiest in me life. The very thought of it made him miserable.
~ Spike Milligan
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
~ Spinoza
Finally, it follows from the preceding proposition that the joy by which the drunkard is enslaved is altogether different from the joy which is the portion of the philosopher,--a think I wished just to hint in passing.
~ Spinoza
Transform enjoying into an even and objectless ecstasy; let all thyself be bliss. This is thy goal.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.
~ Sri Aurobindo
In your outer life If you can feel Consciously and soulfully happy Even while doing Ordinary, mundane things, God will consider this Your real meditation
~ Sri Chinmoy
Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.
~ Sri Chinmoy
The meditation that gives you immediate joy or continuous joy is the best meditation for you. Everyone will not have the same meditation. Your meditation will not suit me, my meditation will not suit you. You like a certain food, I don't like it. You are right in your own way I am right in my own way.
~ Sri Chinmoy
I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.
~ Sri Chinmoy
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj