Quotes About Happiness

A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

To lead happy, contented, peaceful lives, remember all the good times you share with others, forget all the good you do for others.

My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.

But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

When the songs of your heart start singing, you should listen...for its harmony will bring you happiness and the melody is the voice of your true spirit.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

To be strong is to be happy!

It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.

Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

Virtue alone is happiness below.

[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame every trifling dispute . . .

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.

Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain.

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

Happiness is a warm gun.

Happiness is this place that, once you arrive there, you have nothing else to do. You get bored. Passion is this up and down; it's like a rollercoaster, you know, and much more interesting to me.