Quotes About Happiness

Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which occurs at irregular lengths and intervals throughout our lives wherein for an all too ephemeral period, nothing in particular sucks about living.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, 'There is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.'

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.