Quotes About Happiness

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.

There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.

Happiness is your choice. You can choose today.

Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

A person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy.

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!

Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness

The practical effect of Christianity is happiness, therefore let it be spread abroad everywhere!

Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.

Finally, when happiness came knocking on my door, I'd be waiting. I'd open the door and say: "Where have you been? What took you so long? And if you just give me a moment I'll pack and go with you."

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.

If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?