Quotes About Happiness

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.

No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.

When a man is ill,he has only one wish -to gain health,and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he turns even unhappier than when he was lying sick in bed

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.

No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.

The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

The man who loves his job never works a day in his life.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

God has made all men to be happy.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you're a rich man….

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.