Quotes About Happiness

Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.

All Nature wears one universal grin.

There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Happiness isn't a destination, it's a mode of travel. Don't worry be happy.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

The natural thing to do is to work to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort. Human ills flow largely from attempting to escape from this natural course.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

I wake up every day with a smile on my face.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.

but the world is apt to make an erroneous estimate: ignorant of the dispositions which constitute our happiness or misery, they bring to an undistinguished scale the means of the one, as connected with power, wealth, or grandeur, and of the other with their contraries.  Philosophers and poets have often protested against this decision; but their arguments have been despised as declamatory, or ridiculed as romantic.

In this world of semblance, we are contented with personating happiness; to feel it, is an art beyond us.

Psychological research has shown that the most reliable route to personal happiness is to make others happy. I have made many patients very happy with successful operations but there have been many terrible failures and most neurosurgeons' lives are punctuated by periods of deep despair.

It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how… and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.