Quotes About Happiness

It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.

The thing about happiness, though, is that it never lasts.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

I'd rather be happy than right.

What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

A person can either do something in order to be happy, or... a person can start the day by simply deciding to BE happy and the things that person will do will automatically reflect that.

No happiness equals the joy of finding a heart that understands.

When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.

To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one's friends must fail.

How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away?

one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.