Quotes About Happiness

Jumping for joy is good exercise.

Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.

We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

If you want to be happy, be grateful.

If you want to be happy, be kind to others.

If you want to be happy, be happy.

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness, without dreaming of it; but likely enough it is gone the moment we say to ourselves, "Here it is!" like the chest of gold that treasure-seekers find.

Real happiness is more of a habit than a goal, more of an attitude than an attainment. It is the companion of cheerfulness, not the creature of circumstance. Happiness is what overtakes us when we forget ourselves, when we learn to open our eyes in optimism and close the door in the face of defeat.

Grief counts the seconds: happiness forgets the hours.

Even happiness worries sometimes.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except the fact that they are so...

We cannot afford to be anchorites. There is no such thing as being happy ourselves unless we make others happy.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

...and to be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others, bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Man should have an intuition of this far-reaching cosmic purpose and then, if he takes care to see that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things, the difficulties of earthly existence will not destroy his peace of mind.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Consequently, we should try as much as possible to maintain a high degree of health; for cheerfulness is the very flower of it.

If yu ever find happiness bi hunting for it, yu will find it, az the old woman did the spektakles she had lost, safe on her own noze all the time.

Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Contentment is the more serene brother of Happiness.