Quotes About Happiness

The desire for true happiness is nothing to feel ashamed about.

At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.

We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.

I'd catch moonlight in a bottle, if we could drink a toast to happiness.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

The quest for God is the quest for true happiness.

Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.