Quotes About Happiness

Happiness is a result of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings, rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.

If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have.

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

The pursuit of happiness ... is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

The general rule is that people who enjoy life also enjoy marriage.

Men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: "I am doing God's will on earth."

All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

If you want to die happily, learn to live; if you would live happily, learn to die.

When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without it, she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts-once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience.

Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.

Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

Like swimming, riding, writing or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying, "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I've got a home that I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.

Have a variety of interests. ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.