Quotes About Happiness

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.

Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.

One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.

Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions

Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.

And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.

I have received and I want to give. This is the path to happiness and contentment.

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

To become balanced, meditate on the heart center in the center of the chest. There you will experience happiness, refinement, sensitivity, beauty, laughter.

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.

If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.

The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness

The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.

If you can help anybody even a little, be glad; up the steps of usefulness and kindness, God will lead you on to happiness and friendship.