Happiness Quotes

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.

Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Money isn't everything; money doesn't really buy happiness.

To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.