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Quotes About Happiness

Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.
~ Paula McLain
What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.
~ Ian Mcewan
Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.
~ Shawn Achor
Most people still don't think of qualities like happiness as being a skill, that can be enhanced through training.
~ Richard Davidson
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
~ William Wordsworth
Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.
~ Horace
Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness
~ Aristotle
Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.
~ David W Augsburger
When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.
~ Brene Brown
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
~ Horatio Nelson
Happiness cannot help but dance around you when you are fulfilled.
~ Prem Rawat
Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.
~ Oswald Chambers
Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.
~ Nikolaus Lenau
Remember: success does not lead to happiness - it's the other way around. Greater happiness is what leads to greater success.
~ Jeff Olson
Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.
~ Helen Clark
No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
~ Charles Sumner
Lowering your standards is the key to happiness.
~ Ramon Bautista
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
~ Socrates
Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
~ Boyd K. Packer
those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
~ Alex Flinn, Beastly
Even in Siberia there is happiness.
~ Anton Chekhov
Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead
~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
~ Phyllis Bottome