Quotes About Happiness

Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.

We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.

Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.

Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.

God bless you, my beloved sisters, who stand as the queens in your home, that you may be happy with that happiness which comes of the knowledge that you are loved and honored and treasured.

...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again.

Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

Don't just aim high, reach it and grab some happiness along the way.

The sweetest happiness is one that we share .

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

Girls! Girls! Those of you who have hearts, and therefore a wish for happiness, homes and husbands by and by, never develop a reputation for being clever.

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.