Top 999 Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

I'm completely honest with everyone I deal with. I genuinely care about people. I want to see people succeed and be the best that they can be. So, I wanted to write a motivational book about life, love and the pursuit of happiness.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life.

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.

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.

It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.

It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.

I've come to the conclusion that we're all responsible for our own happiness and the happiness in your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. I'm a big believer in positive thinking.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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 would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

It is an amazing feature in the French character that they will let themselves be led away so easily by bad counsels and yet return again so quickly. It is certain that as these people have, out of their misery, treated us so well, we are the more bound to work for their happiness.

Money will not give you happiness; it's part of the key.

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Even as a Miss World, you have to roleplay sometimes. When you look at some people, you feel like breaking down but you've to smile and spread happiness. So of course, I know I am a good actor.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

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.

We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Real and true happiness is having a relationship with God and not what makes us happy.

Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

The universe is conspiring in every moment to bring me happiness and peace.

With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

I wanted Jesus in 'A.D.' to be very, very, very human - to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it's almost complete, right? It's all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples.

I try to live my life with happiness and with a smile on my face. I try to do my best.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

The American culture is pursue your own happiness, follow your dreams. The Chinese side is sacrifice everything for your family; it's all about the group. Those conflicting ideas were always a battle in my head.