Quotes About Life

Happiness is a sort of action.

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

So this is happiness, that journeyman.

It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.

We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.

If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

A person can't know what happiness is without experiencing sadness. And I think that's healthy.

Happiness too is inevitable.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence.