Quotes About Happiness

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.

The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

There is only one way to be happy by means of the heart: not to have one.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.

What, exactly, is the happiness that can be earned by turning away from reality?