Happiness Quotes

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

I was able to find myself spiritually by realizing that my happiness started with me.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. That's great because it inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways - with money or with different things that are not true happiness.