Quotes About Happiness

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

The way to happiness is much, much easier to travel with people one can trust.

If you can achieve action, you will achieve happiness.

Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.

I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.

I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American in every community has the right to pursue happiness.

Agency used righteously allows light to dispel the darkness and enables us to live with joy and happiness.

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

Making a wholehearted commitment to being happy is a powerful medicine.

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

Hats are like a halo of happiness.

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.