Happiness Quotes

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?'

In the unlikely event that I make it into heaven, I won't be able to enjoy everlasting bliss because part of the pleasure of happiness is its transience.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

I think my personality is not because I was born this way but because I was raised this way. I was raised with a lot of fun, a lot of joy, a lot of happiness, a lot of passion, and that's how my family is.

Put your problems into perspective and it usually turns out things aren't nearly so bad. And when they are, look to those memories of happy times. Keep some happiness on reserve for those rainy days!

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.

Happiness isn't a position. It's a trajectory.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

I guess there's always a search for happiness.

I have stopped thinking too much. It all started against West Indies. I told myself that I want to enjoy my life. I don't want selection issues to rule my happiness.

I have known a few good marriages, but very few. And others look to me like they're pretty miserable. I don't really think that's a recipe for happiness.