Quotes About Happiness

Think about what kind of person you are and shape your habits, and your happiness, to show what's true about you instead of thinking that you can just import the right answer from the outside.

Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.

Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

My happiness is measured against my kids' happiness - when they're in a good place, I feel really good.

Enlightenment is really worth seeking. It is the only thing that gives you permanent happiness. When you experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, everything is alright.

My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.

Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.

And feel that I am happier than I know.

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.