Quotes About Happiness

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence.

Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

I don't feel like myself unless I run. It's how I deal with sadness and happiness. I need it. It's like therapy.

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

I'm trying to, with my stand-up and with the podcast, give people these little stupid things to give them happiness. I know that sounds lofty or like I'm starting a cult, but I kind of feel that way.

Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?

Beauty comes from the happiness within.