Happiness Quotes

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful.

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.