Quotes About Happiness

Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.

Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.

At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

If envy is red and doubt is black then happiness is brown. I looked from the little brown stone to the tiny brown freckle to her huge brown eyes.

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.

The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.

The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now.

I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.

When you don't know how beautiful you are, you will always be in search of happiness.

The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.

One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at.

Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.