Quotes About Happiness

If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness.

Life delights in life.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

The road to happiness has never been a straight one, and yet, it is the only road worth traveling, no matter how curvy or rocky it is!

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

Happiness is like rising bubbles -- delightful and inevitably fleeting. Joy is the oxygen -- ever present.

From tiny, tiny waves of joy, one gets to the ocean of happiness, which is called bliss.

Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.

You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

If I can bring joy into the world, then I'll be successful.

Giggle potential is everywhere; we just need to slow down long enough to see it.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.