Quotes About Happiness

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

Happiness is when you see your husband's old girlfriend and she's fatter than you.

Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

No one has a right to happiness.

I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

It didn't take long for the anger to put the happiness in a headlock.

Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from the lesson.

To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.

What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.

I think personally it's not good for anyone - I don't think infidelity leads to happiness. It's painful for the person being cheated on, but also for the person who's cheating.

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it's hard.

If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.