Quotes About Happiness

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.

Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

As soon as you recognize that you are able to control your thoughts, happiness will come within your reach.

Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that.

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

The more you retrain yourself to choose happiness over fear, the more blissful you will be.

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

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There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.

Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.

This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable.

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

Happiness is found principally in meditation.

It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.