Quotes About Happiness

Our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.

The busiest man is the happiest man.

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy.

This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow, too, but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris, a lark, a bluebird, or a dewy morning glory.

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above.

Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go; Scatter bits of courtesy-watch them grow and grow. Gather buds of friendship, keep them till full-blown; You will find more happiness than you have ever known.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

1 am happy and content because I think I am.

If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness, I would say "Work a little harder; Work a little longer; Work!"

Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks.

Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.

Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.