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Quotes About Happiness

Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
~ William Shakespeare
The yoga tradition provides one of humankind's most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life.
~ Rod Stryker
Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.
~ Ronald Reagan
Life is so endlessly delicious
~ Ruth Reichl
Life, I've got lots of friends. I don't complain.
~ Salma Hayek
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
~ Samuel Johnson
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
~ Samuel Richardson
I'm just having fun. And giving a sort of second shot at childhood and life - and I need to be present to do it.
~ Sandra Bullock
I want the other riches in life; I want to get married.
~ Scott Hall
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
~ Seneca the Younger
I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.
~ Sherman Alexie
I felt, if I never did anything in my life but read scripts and synopsize them, I would be happy.
~ Sherry Lansing
Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
~ Simonides of Ceos
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher
~ Socrates
Family makes life whole to me.
~ Stacey King
When I was pregnant, I felt filled with life, and I felt really happy. I ate well, and I slept well. I felt much more useful than I'd ever felt before.
~ Suzanne Vega
If you're gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.
~ Sylvester Stallone
Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
~ Tamera Mowry
Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
~ Taylor Caldwell
I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.
~ Terrence McNally
Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart
~ Thomas Kinkade
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.
~ Thomas Paine
We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
~ Todd Akin