Quotes About Happiness

Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.

If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.

It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.

Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.

To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.

In Zen Buddhism an action is considered good when it brings happiness and well-being to oneself and others, evil when it brings suffering and harm to oneself and others.

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

Happiness is more important than money any day.

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.

If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

Find things that make you feel still, that make you feel good.

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

No being can make another one happy.

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.

Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.