Quotes About Happiness

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Feel that you are happy without any cause for happiness.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

I think that the early feminism at least overlooked the fact that partnership and children can provide happiness. It isn't the only way but for very many people it is the most important way.

Following celebrities or people you don't regularly see in person often doesn't add to our happiness. The best use of social media is to deepen existing close relationships or create new ones.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.

I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.

I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.

It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.

I value my health and my happiness. And I've realized exercise can give me both of those things.

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.