Top 999 Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Just staying healthy, that is true wealth and true happiness.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

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 am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

'Happiness' is a pointless goal.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

I invite you to get out of the box, be yourself. If you have blue hair, pink, yellow; if you have a broken tooth; if you have other sexual preferences... be yourself. Fight for your happiness always.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Try harder to be better and the universe will work towards giving you more happiness.

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

All the riches in the world do not come close to the happiness of having children and being a mother.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem.

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

Happiness is always a coincidence.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

You can be happy where you are.

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.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

The most simple things can bring the most happiness.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

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

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.