Quotes About Happiness

It's an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.

Just because someone is single doesn't mean they're lonely. Some people are in relationships and they've forgotten what happiness is.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.

Our thinking minds deprive us of the happiness that comes when we are living fully in the moment.

Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

In order for the light of gratitude and happiness to shine so brightly, the darkness of how it could be worse must be present.

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones

The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.

Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.