Quotes on Happiness

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness.

The way to be happy is to make others so.

There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile and that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of others. There is no denying that if society suffers, we ourselves suffer, and the more our hearts and minds are afflicted with ill-will, the more miserable we become. We can reject religion, ideology, received wisdom, but we cannot escape the need for love and compassion.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

These days, in our materialistic culture, many people are led to believe that money is the ultimate source of happiness. Consequently, when they don’t have enough of it they feel let down. Therefore, it is important to let people know that they have the source of contentment and happiness within themselves, and that it is related to nurturing our natural inner values.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!

Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

Enthusiasm Rules his inner world. Determination Rules his outer world. Therefore Happiness has become His real name.

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.