Quotes About Happiness

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.

Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

Power is not happiness.

Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.

Gratitude is a choice. Happiness is an attitude.

And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? "Ah" he smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

We are ourselves our happiness.

I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.