Quotes About Happiness

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.

The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.

I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.

I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.

The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best.

If a woman is happy, then your society is happy.

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.

Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture.

Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society

To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .