logo

Quotes About Happiness

With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
~ Jules Verne
Happiness is not a limited resource. So help yourself, and there will be plenty left for everyone else.
~ Marie Forleo
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
~ Jean Kerr
I'm really happy in Liverpool and the club feels such a family. I feel great, I have a nice house and my family have been here from the beginning so they could help me.
~ Royston Drenthe
We must be happy with what we got when we are in pursuit of what we want.
~ Jim Rohn
The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
~ Marguerite Duras
People are like hot potatoes, if they don't make you happy, drop them.
~ Sherise Seven
Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back.
~ Madeleine M. Kunin
The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth
~ Jim Harrison
Happy is the nation without a history.
~ Cesare Beccaria
The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony--periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.
~ Epicurus
The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.
~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
Most of our people have never had it so good.
~ Harold MacMillan
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
~ Albert Camus
Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
~ Shimon Peres
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
~ Thomas Jefferson
My happiness is being able to present my talents for people to see, and I feel like I'm an ambassador of Thai history and Thai culture on film so that people can see Muay Thai.
~ Tony Jaa
If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.
~ Ruth Graham
No change of job, no increased income, no new home, no new electronic device, or no new spouse is going to make things better inside of you.
~ Matt Chandler
Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.
~ Nachman of Breslov
A house is not a home until it has a dog.
~ Gerald Durrell