Happiness Quotes

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.

Money can't buy happiness.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.

In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.