Quotes About Happiness

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

I'll wager my life there are millions of men Who wish that their wives were their sweethearts again

After you get what you want you don't want it.

Heaven,I'm in heaven,And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak;And I seem to find the happiness I seekWhen we're out together dancingCheek to cheek.

Good friends are good for your health

Shuffling her manly feet, shaking her head, she listed off—at the top of her voice, for the whole street to hear—the names of women who were happy with their husbands.

There was a jolly miller onceLived on the River Dee;He worked and sang from morn till nightNo lark more blithe than he.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

There is somewhere someone who will feel lucky knowing you. And if lucky enough, loving you.

I hope you're happy, darling.

No prayers, no medicines, merely the ineffable happiness of dying.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

A hedgehog will not make peace with the world. He is not reconciled. He cannot accept that he knows only many things. He seeks to know one big thing, and strives without ceasing to give reality a unifying shape. Foxes settle for what they know and may live happy lives. Hedgehogs will not settle and their lives may not be happy.

the springs of human joy are almost always poisoned by possessiveness; and the joy of possession is restricted by the object possessed and by the fear of losing it.

I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.

May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.

I have learned that happiness is like the sun. It must be enjoyed when it comes and while it shines.

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

It was the principle of this Court that deterrent laws, however strict, are useless without positive moral discipline; that the happiness of citizens depends, not on having the walls of their porticoes covered with laws, but on having justice in their hearts.

envelop the universe by means of my mind; and by means of the universe, there is nothing that obstructs my mind. Riches and honor, good luck and calamity are elsewhere. When you seek after such things, you may obtain them or you may not—this is not something that is guaranteed. The Greatest Happiness is within yourself. If you seek your mind wholeheartedly, you will obtain it for sure. Simply, do not seek after illusion.

Count your nights by stars, not shadows; count your life with smiles, not tears.