Quotes About Happiness

All my life now appears to be one happy moment. This is what the first man in space said.

Objects create happiness. The animals are pleased to be of use. Your cities will shine forever. Death will not touch you.

There is a tradition in Judaism that happiness and sorrow must be intermingled. On Passover, you are instructed to remove drops of wine before drinking it to lessen your pleasure. Each drop removed represents a tragedy that befell those who went before you. It's the same at weddings. The couple breaks a glass by stepping on it together. This is so they will remember past sorrows in the midst of their present joy.

It is important if someone asks you to remember one of your happiest times to consider not only the question but also the questioner. If the question is asked by someone you love, it is fair to assume that this person hopes to feature in this recollection he has called forth.

I savoured the moment because the moment was more than enough

The time that has gone with happiness does not come back with grief, and nothing the future may bring can wither a day or wipe out an hour in the life that has been lived.

there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...

For if all the men in the world looked upon you as more happy than themselves, then you would be contented. Oh, do not let your happiness depend upon the fancies of other men.

The principle of utility judges any action to be right by the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interests are in question... if that party be the community the happiness of the community, if a particular individual, the happiness of that individual.

Conduciveness to happiness being then the test of virtue, and all happiness being composed of our own happiness and that of others, the production of our own happiness is prudence, the production of the happiness of others is effective benevolence. The tree of virtue is thus divided into to great stems, out of which grow all the other branches of virtue.

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

By the principle of asceticism I mean that principle, which, like the principle of utility, approves or disapproves of any action, according to the tendency which it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interest is in question; but in an inverse manner: approving of actions in as far as they tend to diminish his happiness; disapproving of them in as far as they tend to augment it.

In Italy, you sometimes get the impression they'd be happier to lose the Ppe than lose their right to drive like maniacs.

I can't imagine that I would be terribly happy living in Afghanistan, either, though I dare say there is some satisfaction in going to bed thinking: 'Well, at least I wasn't shot today.

Yes, it's true, you can only be as happy as your least happy child and they are a constant font of worry and stress.

More importantly, if you can't enjoy a glass of wine on a lovely sunny day then you have removed one of the tent poles of civilization from your life. You have become no better than a cow, or a rabbit.

If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town, haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid, then I'll be happy with myself.

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

Studies conducted around the world have shown a close correlation between materialist values, depression, and substance abuse.

if you laugh and smile even when you have no reason to, even if your life is a complete disaster, your brain responds to the input as though it were genuine. Dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphins are the reward, shifting the brain's state from faux happiness to genuine happiness.

You can't have a happy family if you don't have a happy marriage.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.