Quotes About Happiness

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

Freedom is the world of joy.

I am so happy that I didn't have children. Well, you know, because I've had freedom.

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

O freedom, first delight of human kind!

Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.

[A]s long as you're comfortable it feels like freedom.

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.

...knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy's onset.

Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and had a ton of freedom, just did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. At the risk of sounding dopey, I would say it was blissful.

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

I need freedom to be happy.

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.

How can a bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?

When we free ourselves from desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.