Happiness Quotes

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.

Happiness is only real when shared.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.