Quotes About Happiness

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I'm a happy man.

A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?

I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.

Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

You don't need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.