Quotes About Happiness

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job.

Happy is he that chastens himself.

Better be happy than wise.

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

Without kindness, there can be no true joy.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. I suppose it is a philanthropic movement to try to reverse the process.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

When their children flourish, almost all mothers have a sense of well-being.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

Happiness ... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.