Quotes About Happiness

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

If you want to be happy, you will be.

Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

There has to be a moment when you choose happiness, when you stand up, raise your face towards the sun, and just grab joy and put it in a place where no one can ever take it away from you.

Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.

We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.

Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.

Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Be happy in anticipation of what's coming.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

Though outer events may be difficult, the key to our happiness is how our mind responds to them.

The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

Real happiness lies within you.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

Strength is happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.