Quotes About Happiness

Always behold not only your own smile but also the smile of someone else's joy

Happiness inspires productivity.

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

Happiness is the default state of mind, lets reconfigure to reach the default state !

When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.

The idea of happiness for me is being in tune with all around me, at one with all that is. Awareness of our interconnectedness. Harmony.

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

The seeds of a happy marriage are sown in youth. Happiness does not begin at the altar; it begins during the period of youth and courtship.

Volunteering to help others is the right thing to do, and it also boosts personal happiness

If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.

So the patient went to the mountains, and do you know what? Next day a telegram arrived for the psychiatrist. The patient said in the telegram, 'I am feeling very happy - why?'

Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.

Happiness is a by product of service.

How little has situation to do with happiness.

Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.

Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness.

Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.