Quotes About Happiness

Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.

Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

We tend to see God as a means through which we get things to make us happy. For most of us, He has not become our happiness.

How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away!

It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

One of Buddhism's main practices is understanding and experiencing compassion, and how that ultimately is a road to happiness.

Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.

I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.

I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.

Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you are, how aware of your eternal part you are.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.

Happiness, most often, is a choice. Make the choice to sit, breathe, and be in that moment.

O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

I grew up near Disneyland, and my brother's an animator, so I was always really inspired by bright, cartoony colors and that whole feeling of happiness.

Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.

Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.