Happiness Quotes

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

Every age has its happiness and troubles.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.

You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

The power of cosmetics and the effect they can have on one's happiness and confidence is very real.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.