Quotes About Happiness

No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness.

After initial needs are met—enough food, shelter, comfort—there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Happiness is all about milking the "sacred now".

A million tomorrows shall all pass away 'ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today.

If you are happy, don't analyse your happiness, don't ask questions and don't even think about it; just live it to the fullest!

Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.

Enthusiasm Rules his inner world. Determination Rules his outer world. Therefore Happiness has become His real name.

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.

We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

American seekers of happiness are in danger of deluding themselves into believing that only one part of the world exists, the part that gladdens their egos.

Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.

Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

It costs nothing to smile. Do it as often as possible

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!