Explore Quotes on Happiness

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.

Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.

Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

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.

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

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.

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.

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.