Quotes on Great Happiness

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

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

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

The way to be happy is to make others so.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.