Quotes About Happiness

Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.

Happiness is not something to be pursued, it is something met, an encounter. Most encounters, however, have a sequel; this is their promise. The encounter with happiness has no sequel. All is there instantly. Happiness is what pierces grief.

The happiness of being envied is glamour.

The only happy people in the world are those who do not have to write long poems

But living well is the best revenge, isn't it," she declared.

Giving and receiving unconditional love is the most effective and powerful way to personal wholeness and happiness.

Much has been written about codependency. All agree that it is about the loss of selfhood. Codependency is a condition wherein one has no inner life. Happiness is on the outside. Good feelings and self-validation lie on the outside. They can never be generated from within.

And though I'm happy now sitting in Hampstead High Street in the sunshine, the happiness of the memory is a different kind of happiness, the happiness of youth, the happiness of an infinite amount of possibilities.

It's an illusion to believe that you can be happy when no one else is. Or that other people will not be affected by your unhappiness.

On average, individuals with high income are in a better mood than people with lower income, but the difference is about a third as large as most people expect.

Income is an important determinant of people's satisfaction with their lives, but it is far less important than most people think. If everyone had the same income, the differences among people in life satisfaction would be reduced by less than 5 percent.

I don't think money makes much difference, as long as you have enough.

acquiring money for its own sake can become an addiction if you're not careful—

The greatest happiness in life is the knowledge that we are loved and valued for what we are, not for what we have or what we can do.

I have known fellows to whom the earth was so full of little pleasures that after the worst clouts they rose like larks from a furrow. A wise philosophy--but I had none of it. I always saw the little pageant of man's life like a child's peep-show beside the dark wastes of eternity.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.

He that lives in sin, and looks for happiness hereafter, is like him that soweth cockle and thinks to fill his barn with wheat or barley.

As a lifetime proposition, happiness is a discipline, no doubt; but for moments at a time, it's a piece of luck. A piece of luck and a clue: a hint, not just of what might be, but of what already exists, in the heart of a man's heart...

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!

The miserable think that what they have is never enough. Like the Little Mermaid, who owned no more than twenty thingamabobs, they say, "But who cares, no big deal, I want MORE." (How could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs?)

Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!