Quotes About Happiness

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

Every minute your mouth is turned down you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit that they are happy?

Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.

We are all happy, if we only knew it.

Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual... would be, I think, an American cow.

The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

No man is happy unless he believes he is.

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of a life.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy teenagers?

As the sergeant said to the recruit: "You might as well be happy, mate - no one cares if you ain't."

Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.

When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number.