Quotes About Happiness

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Make us happy and you make us good.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

Could it be that by protecting our kids from unhappiness as children, we're depriving them of happiness as adults?

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.

Feel the joy .. feel the happiness.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.