Quotes About Happiness

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

The test of happiness is gratitude.

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can't see--that's my idea of happiness.

I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.

The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist.

If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

Part of being who you are has to do with feeling your feelings, which means you'll have a wide range of emotions--not just constant sunshiny happiness.

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?

Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness.

Make joy and happiness the center of your world.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.