Quotes About Happiness

We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Renown is a source of toil and sorrow; obscurity is a source of happiness.

My crown is called content; a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

You can't be envious and happy at the same time.

What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear, but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

In this fool's paradise, he drank delight

The dog is the god of frolic.

Positive thoughts (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love). - Negative thoughts (judgment, unworthiness, mistrust, resentment, fear) produce negative results (tension, anxiety, alienation, anger, fatigue).

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

She was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.