Top 999 Happiness Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

You should be relaxed before taking the free kick. You should have confidence in your ability and happiness that you are going to score a goal.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

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

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.

I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one's home or the peace of one's mind.

Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.

We thought L.A. would just be sunshine and happiness all around.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Might we... be doing something with our brains that cannot be described in computational terms at all? How do our feelings of conscious awareness - of happiness, pain, love, aesthetic sensibility, will, understanding, etc. - fit into such a computational picture?

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

Happiness, the feeling of positivity, really is the foundation of productivity.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

There is nothing that you can't overcome. So it's never too late for happiness.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

They say people live to be happy. If you actually think about what happiness is, it's nothing much. When you get to eat ramen after feeling really, really hungry, that's happiness.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

I get maximum satisfaction in seeing the happiness of poor people.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Happiness seems made to be shared.