Explore Quotes on Happiness

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

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

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

Shared laughter is erotic too.

I have never seen happier people than those who have repented.

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you’ll be.

There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, - that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.

I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

Real happiness is not dependent on external things.

The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.