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Quotes About Happiness

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.
~ John W. Gardner
The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.
~ John Adams
A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
~ Yoshihiko Noda
If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.
~ Meredith Brooks
No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.
~ Adam Smith
A sour corporate culture can actually make an entire society unhappy. This means that a strong corporate culture can have a positive impact on a society.
~ Simon Sinek
There are four varieties in society the lovers the ambitious observers and fools. The fools are the happiest.
~ Hippolyte Taine
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.
~ Hafez
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The secret to enjoying life is to take an interest in it.
~ Thomas Troward
Make a firm decision: 'Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.'
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Happiness depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.
~ Tenzin Palmo
The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.
~ Denis Waitley
Our attitude should be: Whatever happens I will remain strong, courageous and happy.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.
~ Francis of Assisi
If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
~ Coretta Scott King
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.
~ Dalai Lama
Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.
~ Kalidasa
You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?
~ Mata Amritanandamayi