Quotes About Happiness

But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

Happy are those who evolve from within.

You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does

I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

What happiness is there in just the memory of happiness?

To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.

On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I, No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.

Man, Coach Brown, he's so relaxed. We've seen that guy dancing this week at practice and he's dancing in the locker room. It brings tears to guys' eyes and brings happiness to everybody.

The most fundamental law of tragedy is that the moments of greatest happiness are the hardest to attain.

There are no rules for felicity.