Happiness Quotes

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

It gets better: there's a light at the end of the tunnel. It may take one day, it may take ten years. But one day, you will find happiness if you manifest it. Put that energy out, and it'll come back.

We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.