Quotes About Happiness

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

All the wealth of the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.

In the Orient people believed that the basis of all disease was unhappiness. Thus to make a patient happy again was to restore him to health.

The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick.

Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world, the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: "Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick."

The best things in life aren't things.

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.

With happiness comes intelligence to the heart.

The genius of happiness is still so rare, is indeed on the whole the rarest genius. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.

Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Behold, we count them happy which endure.

It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.

Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

It is in virtue that happiness consists, for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Everyone only goes around the track once in life, and if you don't enjoy that trip, it's pretty pathetic.

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.