Quotes About Happiness

Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.

Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.

Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk, talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody, do it happily.

Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".

Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.

If you're a sniveler, a whiner, a complainer, you will never be happy. We all have that side. Get a little stoical and just take the pain.

Even sickness becomes an experience that we pass through in happiness because our happiness is not dependent upon how our body feels, but how our spirit feels.

Learning to be aware of feelings, how they arise and how to use them creatively so they guide us to happiness, is an essential lifetime skill.

There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.