Quotes About Happiness

Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning

Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.

From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim

If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.

Where there is purpose, there is happiness as well.

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.

Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.