Quotes on Happiness

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

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.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

I feel that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are living at 100%-when we are fully using the physical and mental equipment we have been given.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs...or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them.