Quotes About Happiness

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

Happiness is a tiger in your tank and a pussycat in your back seat.

It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.